{"product_id":"madame-victoria-paperback","title":"Madame Victoria - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine LeRoux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLazer Lederhendler\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2001, a woman's skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital's patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending \u003cem\u003eMadame Victoria\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eMadame Victoria\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, \u003cem\u003eMadame Victoria\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770192003360,"sku":"9781771962070","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bca0a77a002deb5ad34a15387fb38d57.webp?v=1780366819","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/madame-victoria-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}