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StatusElectronic
Call NoOverdrive
Title John of john [electronic resource]. Douglas Stuart.
Author Stuart, Douglas.
CollectioneBook
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Other Classification Number FIC011000 FIC045030 FIC121020 bisacsh
Personal Name Stuart, Douglas.
Title Statement John of john [electronic resource]. Douglas Stuart.
Edition Statement Unabridged.
Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2026.
Physical Description 1 online resource (29 audio files) : digital
Playing Time 15:31:21
Content Type spoken word spw rdacontent
Media Type audio s rdamedia
Media Type computer c rdamedia
Carrier Type online resource rdacarrier
General Note Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note Narrator: Lorne MacFadyen.
Summary, Etc. From the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving, and beautifully crafted novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family, of a father's expectations and a son's desires 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. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal begrudgingly resumes his old life, stuck between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for several decades. Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As lambing season turns to shearing season, everything seems poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly knotted. John of John is a singular novel about duty and patience and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that shows Douglas Stuart working at an even higher level of artistic creation.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fiction. OverDrive
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Literature. OverDrive
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term LGBTQIA+ (Fiction). OverDrive
Index Term-Genre/Form Electronic books. local
Added Entry, Personal Name MacFadyen, Lorne.
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