Name: John of John
SKU: 67024943
Price: 20.67 EUR
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Author: Douglas Stuart
ISBN: 9781037416781

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas Stuart

Publisher

Picador

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.3 cm

ISBN13

9781037416781

Synopsis "John of John"

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO.

'This book is special' - Colm Tóibín
'Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous' - Min Jin Lee
'Brilliant and rare' - Ann Patchett
'A masterpiece' - Elaine Feeney
'A fierce, glorious sting of a novel' - Lauren Groff
'Mesmeric, transportive, vividly sensory' - Bernardine Evaristo

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.

Douglas Stuart

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Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer born in Glasgow in 1976. After studying at the Scottish College of Textiles and earning a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London, he moved to New York at the age of 24, where he developed a successful career in fashion design. Later, he ventured into literature, publishing his first novel, "Shuggie Bain", in 2020.

"Shuggie Bain" is a novel that portrays life in Glasgow during the 1980s and was awarded the Booker Prize in 2020, making Stuart the second Scot to receive this honor.

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