The Revisionaries

By: A.R. Moxon

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

All is not boding 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.

In the end, The Revisionaries is a wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale that conjures the bold outlandishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore - while being unlike anything that's come before.

©2019 Andrew Moxon (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Very good in a hard to follow way.

In the Plus Catalog. I was lost at points but very original.
Has a memorable bad guy.

What Was That?

Dense, beguiling, obtuse and wonderful. Beautiful writing and an insane (at times) narrative style. And the narrator nailed it. I loved this book.

Beautiful language, probably will require a second listen I'm unwilling to make.

First off, the narration is superb. Likewise, A.R. Moxon's language beautiful. The imagery and dialogue is amazing. That said, and I get that this might have been the authors intention and even the meaning of the book -- but it honestly felt like it was made up as he went along -- like a lucid dream. as it wore on, I grew incredibly weary and started not to care about the plot or characters as it felt like work just to get through it. I want to compare it to some of Tom Robbins books but I felt like those had much more consistency and distinct narrative than this (mostly).

Excellently written. A bit “meta” and meandering for me.

Excellently written. A bit “meta” and meandering for me. Hard to follow at times, but I think that is part of the point.

You will continually go “oh it’s that kind of story”

Then you will go “oh, it’s that kind of story”. It’s a masterful onion. Worth the read.