John the Revelator

This is the story of John Devinestuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chainsmoking, Biblequoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the neighborly Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a selfstyled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, Johns life suddenly seems full of possibility. His loneliness dissipates. He is taken up by mischief and discovery, hiding in the world beyond as Lilys mysterious illness worsens. But Jamey and Johns nose for trouble may be their undoing, and soon John will be faced with a terrible moral dilemma.