The River and Enoch O'Reilly

Claiming to be just returned from America, self-made minister Enoch launches a radio show he calls The Revival Hour. After a short but spectacular run, it ends in disaster and he’s forced back to the family home. There, he finds clues to a mythic connection between the dead—this brotherhood of the flood—the natural rhythms of the earth, a secret language called Riverish, and his lost father.

In this fever-dream of a novel, Peter Murphy issues a shaman’s call to conjure together various traditions—the gothic, the Irish, the Southern, the infusion of music into language, the infusion of myth into music and life, the search of a lost son for his long-lost father, our deep connections to our homelands and the cycles of nature. He establishes himself here, firmly, as one of Ireland’s newest literary wonders.