--- product_id: 188467040 title: "The Revisionaries" price: "AED 14" currency: AED in_stock: false reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/188467040-the-revisionaries store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # The Revisionaries **Price:** AED 14 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Revisionaries - **How much does it cost?** AED 14 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/188467040-the-revisionaries) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "A modern-day classic."—Ron Charles, Washington Post “A spectacular invention.” —The New York Times "Compulsively readable."—NPR Things do not bode 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. The Revisionaries is a wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale that conjures the bold outlandish stylishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore—while being unlike anything that’s come before. Review: A Free-Wheeling Morality Epic - The Revisionaries is morality tale as tesseract, with vivid characters and a crazy-train plot driven by shadowy machinations, slippery identities, and supernatural forces. Moxon weaves together postmodern sensibilities and devices, Biblical themes, and traditions of American gothic horror to explore eternal questions of free will, good and evil, identity, revenge, and power unused and abused. Does our struggle allow for "pride of ownership," or are we just bodies down the chute of someone else's scheme? How far are you willing to go to find out? Who's writing this script, anyway? Why are there crimson-clad ninjas everywhere? Want a donut? With the rare exceptions of some unnecessarily refined dialogue (early on) and a somewhat wobbly exposition of quantum cosmology (the one spot where less would have been more), the prose (especially the internal monologue) is both lush and agile, a finely knotted magic carpet for an epic story arc that triangulates Genesis and Jonah, Melville and Machiavelli, Vonnegut, Stephen King and John Barth. Moxon's nuanced grasp of the human psyche is impressive, as is his capacity for metatextual acrobatics and narrative framing. Alongside much else, the book is a tour de force of imagination. The Revisionaries is a rolling broadside of a debut novel. Highly recommended. Review: Sheer Brilliance! - The book has been (favorably) compared to everyone from Vonnegut to Pynchon to Atwood to VanderMeer to David Foster Wallace (footnotes rule!), but the obvious precursor is Tom Robbins (who gets a nifty hidden shoutout to his debut novel on p. 207) ... and whatever happened to him? Never fear, Moxon has arrived to fill a void you never even knew existed. There is so much right about this very, VERY unusual book, but there are also large chunks of it that feel like one is wading through pools of molasses, and despairing of ever getting out. In some ways this was inevitable, as the book is SO ambitious and tries to cram virtually everything under the sun into its long 600 pages, that there were bound to be some longueurs ... trudging through a dozen (albeit necessary) pages 'explaining' quantum physics being just one example. And while much of it is dazzling, sometimes there are leaps that don't QUITE work and often are abandoned almost as soon as they are proffered - e.g., at one point you learn that everything you have been reading up to that point is actually a version of a long running graphic novel in which all the characters are CATS - one page of which is charmingly rendered for the reader's delectation and amusement on p. 415. But then that conceit is largely dismissed, except for the occasional mention of a character being a 'cool cat' - but then again, that ties into the central conceit of the entire book, which is that everything is constantly being 'revised' by some unseen force (the author/s? God?). If a novel in which a major character suddenly becomes a dozen pair of leather sandals sounds off-putting, then this is definitely NOT the book for you. Or if you have no interest in a sci-fi/fantasy/adventure/horror/comic riff on the Book of Jonah - then steer clear. It is NOT an easy read by any measure - there are over a dozen semi-major characters, who often change both name and identity several times over the course of the work, seemingly willy-nilly, with several plot threads happening in different locales and time frames ... the book utilizes a half dozen different fonts to try to delineate between these, but it would take an Einstein to keep them all straight (hint - don't even attempt the audio version - a print copy would seem to be an absolute necessity! And reading it will count as exercise, while you carry around the hefty tome!) :-) If it seems I am trying to ward off potential readers, let me say that it is a unique reading experience that is often enthralling and head-spinning - but it may perhaps enrage and ultimately defeat as many people as it enchants - you know who you are. Call it the Infinite Jest for the 2020s. Up for the challenge? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,069,648 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #2,746 in Fiction Satire #2,775 in Magical Realism #9,055 in Fantasy Action & Adventure | ## Images ![The Revisionaries - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7105gM6VO4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Free-Wheeling Morality Epic *by D***K on December 8, 2019* The Revisionaries is morality tale as tesseract, with vivid characters and a crazy-train plot driven by shadowy machinations, slippery identities, and supernatural forces. Moxon weaves together postmodern sensibilities and devices, Biblical themes, and traditions of American gothic horror to explore eternal questions of free will, good and evil, identity, revenge, and power unused and abused. Does our struggle allow for "pride of ownership," or are we just bodies down the chute of someone else's scheme? How far are you willing to go to find out? Who's writing this script, anyway? Why are there crimson-clad ninjas everywhere? Want a donut? With the rare exceptions of some unnecessarily refined dialogue (early on) and a somewhat wobbly exposition of quantum cosmology (the one spot where less would have been more), the prose (especially the internal monologue) is both lush and agile, a finely knotted magic carpet for an epic story arc that triangulates Genesis and Jonah, Melville and Machiavelli, Vonnegut, Stephen King and John Barth. Moxon's nuanced grasp of the human psyche is impressive, as is his capacity for metatextual acrobatics and narrative framing. Alongside much else, the book is a tour de force of imagination. The Revisionaries is a rolling broadside of a debut novel. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sheer Brilliance! *by C***3 on July 24, 2020* The book has been (favorably) compared to everyone from Vonnegut to Pynchon to Atwood to VanderMeer to David Foster Wallace (footnotes rule!), but the obvious precursor is Tom Robbins (who gets a nifty hidden shoutout to his debut novel on p. 207) ... and whatever happened to him? Never fear, Moxon has arrived to fill a void you never even knew existed. There is so much right about this very, VERY unusual book, but there are also large chunks of it that feel like one is wading through pools of molasses, and despairing of ever getting out. In some ways this was inevitable, as the book is SO ambitious and tries to cram virtually everything under the sun into its long 600 pages, that there were bound to be some longueurs ... trudging through a dozen (albeit necessary) pages 'explaining' quantum physics being just one example. And while much of it is dazzling, sometimes there are leaps that don't QUITE work and often are abandoned almost as soon as they are proffered - e.g., at one point you learn that everything you have been reading up to that point is actually a version of a long running graphic novel in which all the characters are CATS - one page of which is charmingly rendered for the reader's delectation and amusement on p. 415. But then that conceit is largely dismissed, except for the occasional mention of a character being a 'cool cat' - but then again, that ties into the central conceit of the entire book, which is that everything is constantly being 'revised' by some unseen force (the author/s? God?). If a novel in which a major character suddenly becomes a dozen pair of leather sandals sounds off-putting, then this is definitely NOT the book for you. Or if you have no interest in a sci-fi/fantasy/adventure/horror/comic riff on the Book of Jonah - then steer clear. It is NOT an easy read by any measure - there are over a dozen semi-major characters, who often change both name and identity several times over the course of the work, seemingly willy-nilly, with several plot threads happening in different locales and time frames ... the book utilizes a half dozen different fonts to try to delineate between these, but it would take an Einstein to keep them all straight (hint - don't even attempt the audio version - a print copy would seem to be an absolute necessity! And reading it will count as exercise, while you carry around the hefty tome!) :-) If it seems I am trying to ward off potential readers, let me say that it is a unique reading experience that is often enthralling and head-spinning - but it may perhaps enrage and ultimately defeat as many people as it enchants - you know who you are. Call it the Infinite Jest for the 2020s. Up for the challenge? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A viciously fluid plot with imagination cranked to 11 *by C***A on January 20, 2020* The Revisionaries by A. R. Moxon is honestly not like any other book I've read, which also makes it difficult to review. I wavered between 4 and 5 stars, and may revisit my vote after the complex story has had a chance to sink in. With a viciously fluid plot and imagination cranked to 11, The Revisionaries reminds me of some of my favorite books, such as Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan, Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Christopher Moore's Lamb, and Rick Wayne's Fantasmagoria; yet Moxon's originality defies true comparison. Without a doubt, this book gets an A+ for effort, as an insane amount of work shines through every part of the story--event the font selections. This is a challenging read, with more moving parts than a Rube Goldberg machine and nearly every aspect of the story "subject to infinite change." The Revisionaries is an entertaining page-turner with memorable characters and exceptional prose. The vivid tale evokes a plethora of emotions, often brutally dark one moment and absurdly hilarious the next, occasionally both simultaneously. The one nagging issue that haunted me throughout was the thought that Moxon was writing an awful lot of checks that would need to be cashed by the end. Alas, by the grand finale, not every question was answered (or at least not spelled out plainly enough for this simple reader), thus my wavering from a true 5-star read. Certainly, The Revisionaries is a book I enjoyed and will never forget. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/188467040-the-revisionaries](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/188467040-the-revisionaries) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-07-13*