The Son of a Certain Woman
A Fiction, Cultural, Contemporary book. It's an outrageous tale in so many ways.At several points in the book...
Here comes Percy Joyce. From one of Canada’s most acclaimed, beloved storytellers: The Son of a Certain Woman is Wayne Johnston’s funniest, sexiest novel yet, controversial in its issues, wise, generous and then some in its depiction of humanity. Percy Joyce, born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the fifties is an outsider from childhood, set apart by a congenital disfigurement. Taunted and bullied, he is also isolated by his intelligence and wit, and his unique circumstances: an unbaptized boy raised by a single mother in a fiercely Catholic society. Soon on the cusp of teenagehood, Percy is filled with yearning, wild with hormones, and longing for what he can’t have—wanting to be let in...and let out. At the top of his wish list is his disturbingly alluring mother, Penelope, whose sex appeal fairly leaps off the page. Everyone in St. John’s lusts after her—including her sister-in-law, Medina; their paying boarder, the local chemistry teacher, Pops MacDougal; and...Percy. Percy, Penelope, and Pops live in the Mount, home of the city’s Catholic schools and most of its clerics, none of whom...
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- Pages: 448 pages
- ISBN: 9780345807892 / 0
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It's an outrageous tale in so many ways.At several points in the book the narrator actually steps out of the story to talk to the reader in order to defend the overwhelming and repetitive occurrence of incestuous rapture held by the central character, who grows from young boy to man-child over the course of the story. Yes, he has cardinal... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I am conflicted about this book. On the one hand, I greatly appreciated its critical examination of Roman Catholic St. John's - an insular community inside of an insular and isolated city (and my hometown). I have family that went to high school at Brother... Just finished the book on the GO train today. I have to say for myself as a person who attended a Jesuit school around the same age as a teenage Percy Joyce, I related somewhat to the story, although the Catholic church's religious fanaticism in Saint John's was way more extreme than my experiences. While reading, I felt gratified with...
