The Madonna Painter

by Michel Marc Bouchard

At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889226415
• ISBN13: 9780889226418
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"