Messiah
(2016)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Pickle Partners Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781786258953 (electronic bk.) MWT11627536, 1786258951 (electronic bk.) 11627536
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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