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The son of a certain woman / Wayne Johnston. --

By: Publication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2013.Description: 435 pISBN:
  • 0345807898
  • 9780345807892
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: Percy Joyce is afflicted from birth with a congenital disfigurement but a regular boy on the cusp of teenage-hood, filled with yearning, wild with hormones, longing for what he can't have, for wanting to be let in...and let out; and his disturbingly alluring mother, Penelope, whose sex appeal fairly leaps off the page. Every man in St. John's lusts after her, including her sister-in-law Medina, her paying border, Pops MacDougall, with whom she carries on an affair of convenience - and Percy.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Fiction Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC Johns (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001068479
Fiction Markdale Branch Shelves FIC JOHN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available check condition when returned 33436003065296

Percy Joyce is afflicted from birth with a congenital disfigurement but a regular boy on the cusp of teenage-hood, filled with yearning, wild with hormones, longing for what he can't have, for wanting to be let in...and let out; and his disturbingly alluring mother, Penelope, whose sex appeal fairly leaps off the page. Every man in St. John's lusts after her, including her sister-in-law Medina, her paying border, Pops MacDougall, with whom she carries on an affair of convenience - and Percy.

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