Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - Hardcover

Proulx, Joanne

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9780670066681: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670066680 ISBN 13: 9780670066681

Publisher: Viking Canada, 2007

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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 about death and life.

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'A gem. Proulx has taken a risk with this novel and it's paid off...He's funny, convincing and sympathetic' -- Observer

Book Description:

When seventeen year-old Luke Hunter predicts the death of his friend with freakish accuracy, his own life is suddenly and irrevocably altered as a result

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