Eternal Footman - Softcover

Morrow, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015601081X ISBN 13: 9780156010818

Publisher: Thomson Learning, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

A third and final volume in a black comedy about the death of God finds God's skull orbiting the Earth creating apocalyptic chaos as schoolteacher Nora Burkhart and brilliant sculptor Gerard Korty struggle to preserve humanity. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author:

James Morrow was born in Philadelphia in 1947. Besides writing, he plays with Lionel electric trains and collects videocassettes of vulgar biblical spectacles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 015601081X
• ISBN 13: 9780156010818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368