| International Standard Book Number |
9780802167279
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802167194
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Stuart, Douglas, 1976- author.
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| Title Statement |
John of John : a novel / Douglas Stuart.
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| Edition Statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Grove Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
403 pages ; 23 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother. Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son's long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before. John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart's reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Homecoming Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fathers and sons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Presbyterians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sheep ranchers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Scotland Rural conditions Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gay fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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