Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet SIGNED

Proulx, Joanne

ISBN 10: 0670066680 / ISBN 13: 9780670066681

Published by Viking Canada Penguin Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007

About this Item

First Canadian printing, signed with an inscription by the author on the half-title page, newspaper review and promotional launch card enclosed. Filmed as "Anthem of a Teenage Prophet" (2018). Light soil to outer edges and light creasing from page handling. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 13.5 x 19 x 3cm, wt550g Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 025052

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet SIGNED
• Publisher: Viking Canada Penguin Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670066680
• ISBN 13: 9780670066681
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction Mod Lit
  • Youth

About this title

Synopsis

“Stan,” I said, and I said it kind of loud so of course he had to look up. “Tomorrow morning: 8:37. The red van with the out-of-state plates? You go head to head. You lose. You die.”

After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone—the local media, his buddy Fang, the Polish widow next door—at arm’s length as he lurches through a personal minefield studded with previously unconsidered existential ponderings, Christian fundamentalists, a missing teen’s frantic mother, and a dream girl who isn’t his.

Hormonal and funny, exhilarating and wise, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet slyly explores the need to belong, the isolation of youth, and the powerful brew of fear and truth, music and noise, that plays inside us all.

About the Author

Joanne Proulx has had short stories published in literary magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including Exile and Upstairs at Duroc. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is her first novel. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.