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list price: $25
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Oct 2023
ISBN:9781989274972
publisher: Radiant Press

The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief

by Steven Mayoff

tagged: jewish, magical realism, literary
Description

Samson Grief, a reclusive painter in PEI struggling with a creative block, is confronted by three red-haired figments of his imagination in the form of Judas Iscariot, Fagin and Shylock. They claim to be messengers of "The Supreme One", a genderless deity who has decreed PEI to be the new Promised Land and also wants Samson to build the Island's first synagogue. Scared, confused, and seriously doubting his sanity, Samson eventually, though grudgingly, accepts the challenge amidst increasingly bizarre obstacles.

About the Author
Steven Mayoff was born and raised in Montreal, lived in Toronto for 17 years and has made Prince Edward Island his home since 2001. His fiction and poetry have appeared in journals across Canada and the USA, as well as in Ireland, Algeria and France. Fatted Calf Blues, was praised by the Globe & Mail as showing "a strong imagination at work." It won the 2010 PEI Book Award for Fiction and was short-listed for a 2010 ReLit Award and was a Top 5 Finalist in the 2011 CBC Cross-Country Bookshelf.
Editorial Review

"Readers of Steven Mayoff's darkly humorous novel should prepare themselves to expect the unexpected. The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief provides a rollicking journey through an audaciously reimagined Prince Edward Island, a place bubbling over with intrigue, crowded with unforgettable characters both odious and ordinary, and where divine intervention is a daily occurrence. Utterly original and wildly entertaining."
- Ian Colford, author of Witness and The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard, winner of the 2022 Guernica Prize.
Hilarious ontological and cultural satire canopied by sacred mystery: layered and intelligent, comforting and terrifying, schmaltzy and bittersweet. The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief fuses realism, magic realism, zeitgeist, fear, and love into a most delicious and satisfying novel.
- Michelle Butler Hallett, author of Constant Nobody, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.

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