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Gartner, Zsuzsi.
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Saints -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
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Gartner, Zsuzsi.
Saints -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
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The beguiling : a novel / Zsuzsi Gartner.
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Gartner, Zsuzsi.
Hamish Hamilton, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION GAR
Subjects
Saints -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780735239357 (hc.)
Description:
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Lucy is a lapsed-Catholic whose adolescent pretentions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived. It all starts when her cousin Zoltan, in hospital following a bizarre incident at a party, offers her a disturbing deathbed confession. Lucy's grief takes an unusual turn: Zoltan's death appears to have turned her into a magnet for the unshriven. Lucy is transformed into a self-described "flesh-and-blood Wailing Wall" as strangers unburden themselves to her. She becomes addicted to the dark stories, finds herself jonesing for hit after hit. As the confessions pile up, Lucy begins to wonder if Zoltan's death was as random and unscripted as it appeared. She clutches at alarming synchronicities, seeks meaning in the stories of strangers. Why do the stories seem connected to each other or eerily echo elements of her life? Could it be because Lucy has her own transgressions to acknowledge? And then there is that stubbornly resurfacing past, like a tell-tale ribbon of hair snagged on a fish hook.
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Canadian fiction.
First novel.
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1
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