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The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459708495)
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xBony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 -- Nominated
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los Angeles
It's 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 she's 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.
Author: Allan Stratton
ISBN-10: 1459708490
ISBN-13: 9781459708495
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.51h x 7.05w x 0.83d
Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 03/01/2014 pg. 28
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 31
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2014
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los Angeles
It's 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 she's 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.
Author: Allan Stratton
ISBN-10: 1459708490
ISBN-13: 9781459708495
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.51h x 7.05w x 0.83d
Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 03/01/2014 pg. 28
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 31
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2014
By Allan Stratton
xAllan Stratton is the internationally award-winning author of Chanda's Secrets and Borderline. He is also a playwright whose hits include Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii and Rexy! Stratton's first adult novel, The Phoenix Lottery, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He lives in Toronto.
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