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John of John

The extraordinary new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

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John of John

De: Douglas Stuart
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The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.

John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.

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Resumo da Crítica

There are sentences here that gleam and shimmer, demanding to be read and reread for their beauty and their truth
If Shuggie was a paean to the struggles of a single mother lost on the high seas of poverty, addiction and mental illness, Young Mungo is Stuart’s flag in the sand for the hidden generations of working-class gay men
A wonderfully gifted writer
Shuggie Bain means so much to me (Dua Lipa)
Douglas Stuart has a rare gift . . . A major literary talent
An enthralling writer
Douglas Stuart is a genius . . . [He] writes like an angel
Stuart has cemented his status as a vital new voice for the working class
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