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Marc Koralnik |
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ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET
Originally published internationally in 2007 (Penguin Canada; Soho U.S.; Picador MacMillan U.K.; Arena, Netherlands), Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is forthcoming as a feature film in 2018 with movie stars Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Peyton List (BUNK'D) and Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers). Proulx's new
novel is We All Love the Beautiful Girls (coming out in Canada in 2017 with world rights available from Grand Central Publishing for the US pub in 2018).
ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET is a riveting read, one that will sit comfortably alongside the great coming of age stories by Salinger, Chabon & Toews.
When seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter foretells the death of his friend Stan with freakish accuracy, life gets complicated fast. Luke is stoned and thinks he's joking when he tells a good friend exactly when8:37 the following morningand how hit by a red van from out of townhe will die. But when events happen just as Luke foretold, he (and everyone else in his hometown) realises there's nothing remotely funny about such premonitions. Friends, family, the local news crew, a Christian fundamentalist preacher, a missing girl's frantic mother: everyone wants to keep their distance or get close enough to get the inside story. Luke, on the other hand, wants none of it; he has enough problems being an ordinary, everyday teenager, without the added burden of seeing into the futurenot to mention the ever-after.
Written in clear, precise prose, ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET is a darkly comic coming-of-age novel with a difference. Hormonal and humorous, exhilarating and wise, it's a book about fear and truth, life and death, and the music that plays inside us all.
JOANNE PROULX's debut novel ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET, published internationally (Penguin Canada; Soho U.S.; Picador MacMillan U.K.; Arena, Netherlands), was selected by Border's in 2008 for their prestigious Best New Voices series and was the recipient of Canada's Sunburst Award for Fantastic Fiction and named a best debut of 2007 by The Globe and Mail. An MFA graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Joanne Proulx's newest novel is We All Love the Beautiful Girls, Penguin Canada Fall 2017, Grand Central Publishing, 2018.
novel is We All Love the Beautiful Girls (coming out in Canada in 2017 with world rights available from Grand Central Publishing for the US pub in 2018).
ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET is a riveting read, one that will sit comfortably alongside the great coming of age stories by Salinger, Chabon & Toews.
When seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter foretells the death of his friend Stan with freakish accuracy, life gets complicated fast. Luke is stoned and thinks he's joking when he tells a good friend exactly when8:37 the following morningand how hit by a red van from out of townhe will die. But when events happen just as Luke foretold, he (and everyone else in his hometown) realises there's nothing remotely funny about such premonitions. Friends, family, the local news crew, a Christian fundamentalist preacher, a missing girl's frantic mother: everyone wants to keep their distance or get close enough to get the inside story. Luke, on the other hand, wants none of it; he has enough problems being an ordinary, everyday teenager, without the added burden of seeing into the futurenot to mention the ever-after.
Written in clear, precise prose, ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET is a darkly comic coming-of-age novel with a difference. Hormonal and humorous, exhilarating and wise, it's a book about fear and truth, life and death, and the music that plays inside us all.
JOANNE PROULX's debut novel ANTHEM OF A RELUCTANT PROPHET, published internationally (Penguin Canada; Soho U.S.; Picador MacMillan U.K.; Arena, Netherlands), was selected by Border's in 2008 for their prestigious Best New Voices series and was the recipient of Canada's Sunburst Award for Fantastic Fiction and named a best debut of 2007 by The Globe and Mail. An MFA graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Joanne Proulx's newest novel is We All Love the Beautiful Girls, Penguin Canada Fall 2017, Grand Central Publishing, 2018.
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