The Gospel of Orla

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781644212820 Author(s): Eoghan Walls Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Pages: 240

Description: 'A melancholic, funny, and magical coming-of-age story, The Gospel of Orla is glorious, wise, and totally weird. I loved it.'-Annie Hartnett, author of Unlikely Animals'Utterly convincing and fresh and original.'-Colm T ibin, author of The Magician'In his debut novel, poet Eoghan Walls imagines the intersection of the material and the mystic. . . . As the troubled teenager ricochets between circus illusion and divine touch, she and the reader are beckoned to ponder where magic ends and miracles begin.'-Kia Corthron, author of Moon and the MarsA stunning debut novel from the Northern Irish poet Eoghan Walls, The Gospel of Orla is the coming-of-age story of a young girl, Orla, and the man she meets who has an astonishing and unique ability. It is also a road novel that takes us across the north of England after the two flee Orla's village together. Here the mysteries of faith charge full bore into the vagaries of contemporary mores. A humorous, wise, deeply human and sometimes breathtaking work of lyrical fiction.

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