Eternal Footman Contributor(s): Morrow, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 015601081X ISBN-13: 9780156010818 Publisher: Harper Voyager OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Opera |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.48" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 368 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of "death awareness" spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty, who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morrow, James: - James Morrow was born in Philadelphia in 1947. Besides writing, he plays with Lionel electric trains and collects videocassettes of vulgar biblical spectacles. |