Anthology of American Folk Music. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Blind Willie Johnson. Riddley Walker. Huckleberry Finn. Funhouse. The Táin. The Night of the Hunter. Funeral. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. Wise Blood. The Black Rider. The Butcher Boy. Badlands. And the Ass Saw the Angel. The Wicker Man. To Kill a Mockingbird. Wisconsin Death Trip. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon. Blade Runner. Geek Love. Deserter's Songs. The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross. The Old Weird America. Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
Heroes
Prof FW Harper, author of Harper's Compendium of Bizarre Nature Facts. Friedrich Kuchenmeister. Har the Barrel.
John the Revelator - The Novel's Details
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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, John yearns for escape.
When Jamey Corboy, a self styled Rimbaudian boy-wonder, arrives in town, John's life suddenly fills with possibilities – welcome and otherwise – and as he hides from the reality of his mother's ever-worsening health, he is faced with a terrible dilemma.
Brilliantly evoking all the frustrations and pent up energy of a small-town 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 gently hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with.
‘So fresh, so original and disturbing and brave… It’s an absolutely wonderful book.” Colm Tóibín.
‘Everything about John the Revelator excited me – I couldn't wait to turn the page and keep on going. It was like reading for the first time, almost as if I'd never read a novel before.’ Roddy Doyle
Forthcoming from Faber & Faber and Harcourt Books 2009.
Peter Murphy is a writer and journalist, based in Ireland. He is currently a contributing editor with Hot Press magazine, and has written for Rolling Stone, the Sunday Business Post, and other publications. Murphy has contributed liner notes to the forthcoming remastered edition of the Anthology of American Folk Music and is a regular guest on RTE Television’s arts programme, The View. John the Revelator is his first novel.
