TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Peter
TI  - John the revelator
SN  - 9780571240203 (pbk.)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - Boys
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - 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 dilemall in love with and an astounding debut
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