This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker.
Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies. He ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases at Aptakisic Junior High. But in just four days, from the moment he meets the beautiful Eliza June Watermark to the terrifying Events of November 17, Gurion's search for righteousness sparks a violent, unstoppable rebellion.
Driven equally by moral fervour and teenage exuberance, The Instructions is hilarious, troubling, empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic and unforgettable.
- ISBN10 0857861360
- ISBN13 9780857861368
- Publish Date 1 September 2011 (first published 1 November 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 July 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1056
- Language English