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From the publisher:
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the island 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.
Rapid Rating: High.
Profanity includes 61 uses of strong language, around 40 instances of moderate profanity, about a dozen uses of mild language, and about 10 to 15 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes nudity, kissing, vulgar references, and some open-door content, between males.
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