ISBN:
9780889228429
Pages: 144 pp
Pub. Date:
April 15 2014
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC019000
- FICTION / Literary
Edgar, a timid, asocial thirty-something, witnesses the brutal rape of a young woman and subsequently bears the unconscious victim home. Haunted by the death of his overbearing mother, he pledges to act as the mysterious woman’s saviour. Gothic and darkly humorous, The Obese Christ explores the nebulous divide between Good and Evil, while demonstrating a powerful mastery of suspense.
"And though he talks to people, there’s not a single dialogue exchange in the entire book. This dehumanizing device depicts the way Edgar uses others solely to enact his mutating justifications as he moves from rescue to kidnapping to murder to exorcism – it’s dreadful, but incredibly effective as a technique. There are not many books that make this reader’s flesh crawl, but The Obese Christ is undoubtedly one of them."
– Montreal Review of Books
“This disturbing novel slowly and ingeniously unfolds, revealing an ever-darkening scenario. … Suspense is cleverly built up, understanding subtly created. … an intense and gripping journey enhanced by Tremblay’s lyrical, evocative language, his effective narrative technique, and his meticulous attention to the everyday, often unappetizing, details of housework, clothing, bodies.”
– Event magazine
“This cinematographic novel advances with machinelike precision worthy of Hitchcock.”
– Le Soleil
“Larry Tremblay has concocted an amazing psycho-religious thriller.”
– Voir
