{"product_id":"river-and-enoch-oreilly-peter-murphy-9780547904771","title":"River and Enoch O'Reilly","description":"\"This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft on the river, but it's the precision of the words that cinches you.\"--Richard Hell, author of \u003cem\u003eI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A passionate dream of a book. Dazzling, but lucid--as though Flannery O'Connor had gone back to the Ireland of her forebears to write a novel.\"--Peter Behrens, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A small Irish town. A river flood. The return of a prodigal son. On the banks of the river Rua, when the rains have stopped and the waters receded, nine bodies are found. What took them to the river? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enoch O'Reilly, a self-made preacher and Elvis impersonator claiming to be just returned to Ireland from America, launches a radio show \u003cem\u003eRevival Hour\u003c\/em\u003e. It enjoys a short but spectacular run, and its disastrous end forces Enoch back to the family home. There he finds clues to a mythic connection between the dead--this brotherhood of the flood--the natural rhythms of the earth, a secret language called riverish, and his lost father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Conjuring together various traditions--gothic, Irish, Southern, musical, poetic, our deep connections to stories, to our homelands, and to nature--Peter Murphy establishes himself as one of Ireland's literary wonders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A wild and inventive butt-kicker, but also strangely tender, and the language is charged, vivid, luminous.\"--Kevin Barry, author of \u003cem\u003eCity of Bohane\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Murphy can write like an angel, [but] his gaze is mischievous.\"-- \u003cem\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0547904770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547904771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013","brand":"Peter Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057326092543,"sku":"9780547904771","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5621f576-e909-44f9-93c6-35b272d1eee0.jpg?v=1685046332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/river-and-enoch-oreilly-peter-murphy-9780547904771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}