John the revelator

Peter Murphy

Original title: John the Revelator

first published 2009 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

A universal story of love, family and betrayal, John the Revelator is narrated in the compelling voice of an introverted, watchful adolescent, John Devine. Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily and the gregarious but sinister Mrs Nagle, he yearns for escape. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy-wonder, arrives in town, Johns life suddenly fills with...

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John the revelator edition · 2009 · Ulverscroft · 9781847828606
Ich, John edition · 2009 · Suhrkamp · 271 pages · 9783518461099
John the revelator edition · 2009 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 9780151014026
John the Revelator edition · 2009 · Faber and Faber Ltd · 9780571250837

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