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John the Revelator (Paperback)
Short Description for John the RevelatorStuck in a small town, John Devine is worried over by his chain-smoking, bible-quoting single mother Lily. So when Jamey Corboy, a self-styled boy-wonder, arrives in town, John's life suddenly fills with possibilities. But as they scheme is John simply hiding from the reality of his mother's ill health, and the terrible dilemma that awaits him?
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 05 February 2009
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780571240203 ISBN 10: 0571240208
- Sales rank: 418,928
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Full description for John the Revelator
John Devine yearns for escape. Stuck in a small town, he's worried over by his chain-smoking, bible-quoting single mother Lily and the sinister Mrs Nagle. So when Jamey Corboy, a self-styled boy-wonder, arrives in town, John's life suddenly fills with possibilities. But as they dream and scheme is John simply hiding from the reality of his mother's ill health, and the terrible dilemma that awaits him? Brilliantly evoking all the frustrations and pent up energy of a parochial adolescence, "John the Revelator" also gradually becomes the story of Lily herself, and the secrets of her past. Suffused with eerie imagery, black humour and told in hypnotic prose, "John the Revelator" is a novel to fall in love with.
