A novel that critics have more than once compared to Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.”
“The devil fights with God, and the battlefield of that fight is the human hearts”—this is the best definition for this unusual, moving story about a fourteen-year-old boy from the deep South, raised by his grandfather—a harsh Puritan—for the great mission of the Teacher. After his death, Francis tries to reject his prophetic calling and goes to a big city, where one tragicomic test after another awaits him…