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Trade paperback. A new novel from the author of "John The Revelator", set in 1984. With a plot involving suicide, flood, legend, myth, conspiracy, prophecy and death, it's blackly humorous.
Synopsis
Tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local radiovangelist, O'Reilly is a man haunted by the childhood ghosts of his father's sinister radio set ...a false prophet destined for a terrible consummation with that old, evil river.
