John the Revelator

Peter Murphy

A universal story of love, betrayal and family, John the Revelator by Peter Murphy is our big debut novel for 2009.

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£7.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571240210
Date Published
03.09.2009
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Summary

Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother – the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily – and the ‘neighbourly’ Mrs Nagle, John Devine yearns for escape. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town John’s life suddenly seems to be full of possibility. But together their nose for trouble may be their undoing and, as John hides from the reality of his mother’s ever-worsening health, he is soon faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Brilliantly evoking all the frustrations and pent-up energy of a small-town adolescence, it also gradually becomes the story of Lily herself, and the secrets of her past. Suffused with eerie imagery, black humour and hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with.

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Peter Murphy’s 2009 novel John the Revelator was one of the most acclaimed Irish debuts of recent years, hailed as ‘an absolutely wonderful novel’ by Colm Toibin and ‘a brilliant book’ by Neil Jordan, it was shorltisted for both the Costa First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction. He is also a freelance journalist and reporter for…

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