John the Revelator by Peter Murphy

John the Revelator by Peter Murphy

This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the neighborly Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, John s life suddenly seems full of possibility. His loneliness dissipates. He is taken up by mischief and discovery, hiding in the world beyond as Lily s mysterious illness worsens. But Jamey and John s nose for trouble may be their undoing and soon John will be faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Joining the ranks of the great novels of friendship and betrayal A Separate Peace, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha John the Revelator grapples with the pull of the world and the hold of those we love. Suffused with family secrets, eerie imagery, black humor, and hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with and an astounding debut.

Peter Murphy, Ph.D. (Wellington, New Zealand), Senior Lecturer in Communications at the Victoria University of Wellington, has been a visiting scholar at Ohio State University; has taught at the New School for Social Research and Baylor University, among other institutions; and is the co-editor of The Left in Search of a Center and Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath.

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ISBN 13	9780151014026
ISBN 10	0151014027
Title	John the Revelator
Author	Peter Murphy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2009-08-01
Number of pages	254
Prizes	Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (First Novel) 2009
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