Book description
Luke Hunter thinks he's joking when he tells a good friend exactly when
- 8:37 the following morning - and how - hit by a red van from out of
town - that friend will die. But when events unfold as Luke foretold, he
wants none of it: he has enough problems being an average teenager
without the added burden of seeing into the future - not to mention the
ever-after. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke pushes his friends
and family away, while the local news crew, a Christian fundamentalist
preacher and a missing girl's frantic mother all draw nearer, seeking to
profit from Luke's new-found 'gift'. 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 is a book
about fear and truth, life and death, and the music that plays inside us
all. Written in clear, precise prose, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is a
darkly comic coming-of-age novel about death and life.
Joanne Proulx has had short stories published in literary magazines
in America and Canada. This is her first novel.
She lives in Ontario.
