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John the Revelator [sound recording] : [a mass for six voices]
Kline, Phil, 1953-Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe Music, p2008. -
John the revelator
Murphy, Peter, 1968-London : Faber and Faber, 2009.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. Suffused with eerie imagery, black humour and told in hypnotic prose, "John the Revelator" is a novel to fall in love with.Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother - the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily - and the 'neighbourly' Mrs Nagle, John Devine yearns for escape. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town John's life suddenly seems to be full of possibility. But together their nose for trouble may be their undoing and, as John hides from the reality of his mother's ever-worsening health, he is soon faced with a terrible moral dilemma. 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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General chart of the Baltic or East Sea including the gulfs of Botnia and Finland : compiled from the surveys made by order of the admiralties of Copenhagen, Stockholm & St. Petersburgh
Faden, William, 1749-1836 and Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824,Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:600,000 (E 12°--E 31°/N 66°--N 53°). Depths shown by soundings and isolines. "Published by W. Faden, Ge...
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