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    John the Pupil

    By David Flusfeder

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 17, 2014
    ISBN9780007561193
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    David Flusfeder

    David Flusfeder is the author of six novels: Man Kills Woman (1993), Like Plastic (1996), which won the Encore Award, Morocco (2001), The Gift (2003), The Pagan House (2007) and A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010).

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      Didn't find this amazing. I read as an ebook which was not formatted like the book i'd imagine, with notes and different font types and made to look like an old manuscript...all the things to get you in the mood for a pretend discovered narrative like this. Story was fine, characters fine. Wont run out to find something else by him.