The Revisionaries

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  • "A
  • modern-day
  • classic."—Ron
  • Charles,
  • Washington
  • Post“A
  • spectacular
  • invention.”—The
  • New
  • York
  • Times"Compulsively
  • readable."—NPRThings
  • do
  • not
  • bode
  • well
  • for
  • Father
  • Julius**.
  • .
  • .**
  • A
  • street
  • preacher
  • decked
  • out
  • in
  • denim
  • robes
  • and
  • running
  • shoes,
  • Julius
  • is
  • a
  • source
  • of
  • inspiration
  • for
  • a
  • community
  • that
  • knows
  • nothing
  • of
  • his
  • scandalous
  • origins.But
  • when
  • a
  • nearby
  • mental
  • hospital
  • releases
  • its
  • patients
  • to
  • run
  • amok
  • in
  • his
  • neighborhood,
  • his
  • trusted
  • if
  • bedraggled
  • flock
  • turns
  • expectantly
  • to
  • Julius
  • to
  • find
  • out
  • what’s
  • going
  • on.
  • Amid
  • the
  • descending
  • chaos,Julius
  • encounters
  • a
  • hospital
  • escapee
  • who
  • babbles
  • prophecies
  • of
  • doom,
  • and
  • the
  • growing
  • palpable
  • sense
  • of
  • impending
  • danger
  • intensifies
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • as
  • does
  • the
  • feeling
  • that
  • everyone
  • may
  • be
  • relying
  • on
  • a
  • street
  • preacher
  • just
  • a
  • little
  • too
  • much.Still,
  • Julius
  • decides
  • he
  • must
  • confront
  • the
  • forces
  • that
  • threaten
  • his
  • congregation—including
  • the
  • peculiar
  • followers
  • of
  • a
  • religious
  • cult,
  • the
  • mysterious
  • men
  • and
  • women
  • dressed
  • all
  • in
  • red
  • seen
  • fleetingly
  • amid
  • the
  • bedlam,
  • and
  • an
  • enigmatic
  • smoking
  • figure
  • who
  • seems
  • to
  • know
  • what’s
  • going
  • to
  • happen
  • just
  • before
  • it
  • does.The
  • Revisionaries
  • is
  • a
  • wildly
  • imaginative,
  • masterfully
  • rendered,
  • and
  • suspenseful
  • tale
  • that
  • conjures
  • the
  • bold
  • outlandish
  • stylishness
  • of
  • Thomas
  • Pynchon,
  • Margaret
  • Atwood,
  • and
  • Alan
  • Moore—while
  • being
  • unlike
  • anything
  • that’s
  • come before.
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