The Messiah

The Messiah - Paperback

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The Messiah - Paperback

The Messiah - Paperback

by Gore Vidal
$18.00
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Book Overview

When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.
ISBN9780141180397
Author Gore Vidal
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Two novels in his Narratives of Empire series, Lincoln and 1876, were the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.

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