“I was born in a storm …”
A universal story of love, betrayal and family, John the Revelator is narrated in the memorable voice of John Devine. Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother—the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily—and the “neighbourly” Mrs. Nagle, John yearns for escape.
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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