John the Pupil
Author(s): David Flusfeder
The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder chronicles a pilgrimage to Rome made by three young men with a secret burden. But they will meet with temptation along the way...'John the Pupil' is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarrantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. As well as having to fight off ambushes from thieves hungry for the thing of power they are carrying, the holy trio are tried and tempted by all sorts of sins: ambition, pride, lust - and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life. Erudite and earthy, horrifying, comic, humane, David Flusfeder's extraordinary novel reveals to the reader a world very different and all too like the one we live in now.
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From the reviews of 'A Film By Spencer Ludwig': '"A Film By Spencer Ludwig", [is] such a joy to read ... Spencer's own justification of his life as a "real artist", and his reasons for despising mainstream cinema, are perfectly drawn' Guardian 'A tale of familial bonding involves encounters with the law, prostitutes, poker tables and unsavoury types, all spooled through Spencer's filmic narrative ... the most memorable sections of Flusfeder's whimsical novel have the intimacy of a home movie' Sunday Times 'David Flusfeder is a stylishly masculine writer, and he pays fine tribute to the tenacious love that somehow binds this unlikeliest of father-son teams' Daily Mail 'A classy and original novel - wry, sad, tough-minded and stylishly written' Al Alvarez
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : Fourth Estate Ltd
- : 16 July 2014
- : 01 August 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Flusfeder
- : 256