John the revelator
By: Peter Murphy
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847828606
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Fiction; Single mothers; Adolescence
Description: "John Devine yearns for escape. Stuck in a small town, he's worried over by his chain-smoking, bible-quoting single mother Lily and the sinister Mrs Nagle. So when Jamey Corboy, a self-styled boy-wonder, arrives in town, John's life suddenly fills with possibilities. But as they dream and scheme is John simply hiding from the reality of his mother's ill health, and the terrible dilemma that awaits him? Brilliantly evoking all the frustrations and pent up energy of a parochial adolescence, "John the Revelator" also gradually becomes the story of Lily herself, and the secrets of her past."--Jacket.