{"product_id":"9781770462342","title":"Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Chester Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe idiosyncratic master Chester Brown continues his thoughts on sex work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Bible is Chester Brown’s holy harlot. He plumbs the mysteries of her depths while she schools him in the ways of love. Like all of Chester’s work, \u003ci\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e is confounding, yet addictive, instantly re-readable, and expands with revelations in his hundred pages of notes. A work of passion, research, and elegant clarity. My new favourite.”—\u003cb\u003eCraig Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBlankets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHabibi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chester Brown is both God’s and the devil’s gift to the world.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Henry Sterry\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chester’s work never fails to surprise and delight me. Since I always enjoy mythic and legendary tales of harlots, I knew I would like \u003ci\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, but I was pleased and impressed by the way he used all these stories to illustrate a larger theme about humanity’s relationship to Divinity and the role my profession plays in that relationship. Chester shows that spirituality and sexuality, which are so often depicted in our culture as opposed to one another, are actually deeply intertwined.”—\u003cb\u003eMaggie McNeill\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Honest Courtesan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of \u003ci\u003ePaying for It: A comic-strip memoir about being a john\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLouis Riel\u003c\/i\u003e returns and with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. \u003ci\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e is the retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown's fascinating and startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and the Virgin Mother. He reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible's representations of sex work.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting follow-up to Brown's sui generis graphic memoir \u003ci\u003ePaying for It\u003c\/i\u003e, which was reviewed twice in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and hailed by sex workers for Brown's advocacy for the decriminalization and normalization of prostitution. Brown approaches the Bible as he did the life of Louis Riel, making these stories compellingly readable and utterly pertinent to a modern audience. In classic Chester Brown fashion, he provides extensive handwritten endnotes that delve into the biblical lore that informs \u003ci\u003eMary Wept Over the Feet of Jesu\u003c\/i\u003es.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eMary Wept\u003c\/i\u003e] includes stories about Ruth, Bathsheba, Tamar, Job, and, of course, Mary of Bethany. Brown doesn’t tell these stories to demean the women involved: he advocates for the legalization of sex work and respect for its practitioners.\"—\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His evenhanded pace of four small panels on each page keeps the tone understated, and he gets a lot of comedic mileage out of rendering biblical dialogue into modern vernacular...But Brown zeros in on the human drama in each story...and his visual craftsmanship is as sharp as it's ever been.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chester Brown’s\u003ci\u003e Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e may be the most provocative comic book published this year... Though he tells familiar stories, Brown often pushes them in surprising—and sometimes even shocking—directions... Brown defends [his] conclusion[s] in a series of lengthy exegetical endnotes that capture both the scope of his inquiries and the shape of his own fascinations.”—\u003ci\u003eSlate Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"…this graphic interpretation of tales of sex and personal politics from  the Bible is revelatory and brilliant. That Brown is an excellent artist  is a given, but the research and documentation here is scholarly and  insightful.\"—\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e is a spiritual successor, of sorts, to the acclaimed 2011 memoir\/manifesto \u003ci\u003ePaying For It\u003c\/i\u003e...  In a way, the 55-year-old Brown has been building toward this book,  which combines a deep interest in Christian theology and sex-work  advocacy, his entire career.\"—\u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e...a stunning piece of exegesis... a full-fisted counterpunch right to the biblical  “souler” plexus.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brown here is, as always, an original thinker, and his take on the Good Book is oddly uplifting.\"—\u003ci\u003eMacleans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781770462342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40595997688014,"sku":"9781770462342","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_ff7946ba-cd80-4e88-9dd1-3e8d2355cb60.jpg?v=1637846684","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781770462342","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}