{"product_id":"9781770890664","title":"The Immaculate Conception","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1994 as \u003cem\u003eL'Immaculee conception\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. \u003cem\u003eImmaculate Conception\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131097563376,"sku":"9781770890664","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770890664_p0.jpg?v=1763707140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770890664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}