Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - "This is the story of John Devine - stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. . . " Irish author's very highly praised first novel - Colm Toibin called it "an absolutely wonderful novel . . so original and so disturbing and so brave..." 254 pp. ISBN: 9780151014026.