A Modern Journey
by Derek Turner
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Pub Date 15 Jan 2016 | Archive Date 22 Jan 2016
Description
‘A richly textured comic masterpiece’ – Thomas Fleming
Present day Dublin.
Ambrose Sheehy-O’Connor is an unlikely protagonist whose wayward energy and imagination explode in unpredictable directions in a country consuming itself in culture wars.
Ambrose is a 23 year old misfit, who has an otherworldly encounter, and becomes convinced he has a mission to convert a secularizing Ireland to his own bizarre religion.
His strange appearance, gaucherie and naivety - plus a theology blended from medieval Christianity, fantasy novels and computer games - horrify his mother and spark ridicule and violent hatred.
But he also finds devotees looking for any kind of leader.
His quest brings him into confused, comical and calamitous contact with believers and unbelievers from disillusioned nuns to glamorous socialites, leftist chat-show hosts to sleazy New Age healers - all brought together in a fable of change and continuity.
A Modern Journey is a compelling, complex and well-written literary novel. It is about one man’s journey from obscurity to notoriety and indifference to enlightenment in modern Ireland.
Praise for A Modern Journey
“Catholic conservatives and modernizers, disillusioned nuns, glamorous socialites, ultra-nationalists, leftist chat-show hosts, sleazy New Age healers, pious Travellers - what’s not to like in such an irresistible mix!” - Ruth Dudley Edwards, author of Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure
“Finely written, deft characterization, funny, compulsive...Turner’s concerns are philosophical and portentous, in the European tradition of social movement and ideas, yet he cloaks this evisceration of a corner of our contemporary world in adept drollery. A comic tour de force of import, Joycean in its magnificent flow.” - Stoddard Martin , author of Wagner to the Waste Land
“A richly textured comic masterpiece that manages to satirize the post-Christian West.... Derek Turner pulls no punches as he takes us on his magic carpet ride through the Irish landscape…This novel… has something to offend every postmodern sensibility.” - Thomas Fleming, author of The Morality of Everyday Life
“I know of no other living novelist who produces such taut sentences, so barbed, so seamlessly invested with classic references…and so satirically murderous...an author of quicksilver intelligence and X-ray eyes.” - Tito Perdue, author of William’s House
Derek Turner has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, Country Life, and many other journals in Europe and America. He is also the author of the novel Sea Changes and Displacement which is a Kindle Single. You can see more about Derek here: http://www.derek-turner.com.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
Present day Dublin.
Ambrose Sheehy-O’Connor is an unlikely protagonist whose wayward energy and imagination explode in unpredictable directions in a country consuming itself in culture wars.
Ambrose is a 23 year old misfit, who has an otherworldly encounter, and becomes convinced he has a mission to convert a secularizing Ireland to his own bizarre religion.
His strange appearance, gaucherie and naivety - plus a theology blended from medieval Christianity, fantasy novels and computer games - horrify his mother and spark ridicule and violent hatred.
But he also finds devotees looking for any kind of leader.
His quest brings him into confused, comical and calamitous contact with believers and unbelievers from disillusioned nuns to glamorous socialites, leftist chat-show hosts to sleazy New Age healers - all brought together in a fable of change and continuity.
A Modern Journey is a compelling, complex and well-written literary novel. It is about one man’s journey from obscurity to notoriety and indifference to enlightenment in modern Ireland.
Praise for A Modern Journey
“Catholic conservatives and modernizers, disillusioned nuns, glamorous socialites, ultra-nationalists, leftist chat-show hosts, sleazy New Age healers, pious Travellers - what’s not to like in such an irresistible mix!” - Ruth Dudley Edwards, author of Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure
“Finely written, deft characterization, funny, compulsive...Turner’s concerns are philosophical and portentous, in the European tradition of social movement and ideas, yet he cloaks this evisceration of a corner of our contemporary world in adept drollery. A comic tour de force of import, Joycean in its magnificent flow.” - Stoddard Martin , author of Wagner to the Waste Land
“A richly textured comic masterpiece that manages to satirize the post-Christian West.... Derek Turner pulls no punches as he takes us on his magic carpet ride through the Irish landscape…This novel… has something to offend every postmodern sensibility.” - Thomas Fleming, author of The Morality of Everyday Life
“I know of no other living novelist who produces such taut sentences, so barbed, so seamlessly invested with classic references…and so satirically murderous...an author of quicksilver intelligence and X-ray eyes.” - Tito Perdue, author of William’s House
Derek Turner has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, Country Life, and many other journals in Europe and America. He is also the author of the novel Sea Changes and Displacement which is a Kindle Single. You can see more about Derek here: http://www.derek-turner.com.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
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