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Madame Victoria : variations
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- ISBN: 9781771962070
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206 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Language Note: | Translation of French book with same title. |
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| Subject: | Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- Perseus Publishing
<p>In 2001, a womanâs skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montrealâs Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospitalâs patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the womanâs face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten.</p><p>But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending <em>Madame Victoria</em> twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives. And in doing so, <em>Madame Victoria</em> becomes much more than the story of one unknown and unnamed woman: it becomes a celebration of the lives and legacies of unknown women everywhere.</p><p>By turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, <em>Madame Victoria</em> is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap.</p> - Perseus Publishing
Remains of a woman are discovered in Montréal: who was this âVictoriaâ and why can she not be identified?
