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Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
Chester Brown
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Description for Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black and white drawings throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 348.
The iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John returns with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. Mary Wepte over the feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics from of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown's fascinating and starling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and he Birgin Mother and the reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible's ... Read more
The iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John returns with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. Mary Wepte over the feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics from of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown's fascinating and starling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and he Birgin Mother and the reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770462342
SKU
V9781770462342
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-78
About Chester Brown
Chester Brown was born in Montreal in 1960 and is best known for his two recent non-fiction graphic novels: the meticulously researched and Harvey-Award winning Louis Riel, and the controversial, critically acclaimed Paying for It. Brown began self-publishing his comic book series Yummy Fur at twenty-three, and has been publishing with D+Q since 1991. He is also the author of ... Read more
Reviews for Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
Paying for It [is a] recounting of the author's many erotic sessions with sex workers; it's a bitter critique of the inanities of romantic love; and it's a sustaned argument in favour of decriminalizing prostitution. - New York Times