The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1459708490
ISBN-13
9781459708495
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint
Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 19th, 2014
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In Dirty Thirties London, Ontario, Mary Mabel McTavish resurrects a dead boy, becomes famous as "The Miracle Maid," and gets involved with William Randolph Hearst and the movie business in Hollywood.
Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 Nominated
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los Angeles
Its the Great Depression and Mary Mabel McTavish is suicidal. A drudge at the Bentwhistle Academy for Young Ladies (aka Wealthy Juvenile Delinquents), she is at London General Hospital when little Timmy Beeford is carried into emergency and pronounced dead. He was electrocuted at an evangelical road show when the metal cross on top of the revival tent was struck by lightning. Believing shes guided by her late mother, Mary Mabel lays on hands. Timmy promptly returns to life.
William Randolph Hearst gets wind of the story and soon the Miracle Maid is rocketing from the Canadian backwoods to 30s Hollywood. Jack Warner, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Rockettes round out a cast of Ponzi promoters, Bolshevik hoboes, and double-dealing social climbers in a fast-paced tale that satirizes the religious right, media manipulation, celebrity, and greed.
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los Angeles
Its the Great Depression and Mary Mabel McTavish is suicidal. A drudge at the Bentwhistle Academy for Young Ladies (aka Wealthy Juvenile Delinquents), she is at London General Hospital when little Timmy Beeford is carried into emergency and pronounced dead. He was electrocuted at an evangelical road show when the metal cross on top of the revival tent was struck by lightning. Believing shes guided by her late mother, Mary Mabel lays on hands. Timmy promptly returns to life.
William Randolph Hearst gets wind of the story and soon the Miracle Maid is rocketing from the Canadian backwoods to 30s Hollywood. Jack Warner, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Rockettes round out a cast of Ponzi promoters, Bolshevik hoboes, and double-dealing social climbers in a fast-paced tale that satirizes the religious right, media manipulation, celebrity, and greed.
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