Messiah - Hardcover

Codrescu, Andrei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684803143 ISBN 13: 9780684803142

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Set from December 1999 to Mardi Gras 2000, Messiah introduces two remarkable young women: Felicity, a girl detective in New Orleans, and Andrea, a Sarajevan orphan who has found asylum in Jerusalem after internment in a Serbian POW camp. Felicity and Andrea, both presciently self-aware, come to believe they are the two severed halves of a whole entity, eventually finding each other amid the chaos of millennial fervor. Their special mission: to fulfill an extraordinary destiny as Armageddon sweeps the earth.

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Review:

Harry Shearer actor and comedian How good is Andrei Codrescu's new book? He imagines a future so like our present in its narcissism, its media obsession, its millennial craziness, that it does not make me scream, "Oh Christ, no, not another future!" He uses our language so elegantly, with such wit and verve, that he makes me think the secret to writing great English is to be born speaking Rumanian. If you can have but one book with you on New Year's Eve 1999, this is the one.

About the Author:

Andrei Codrescu is a poet, novelist, and essayist. His radio essays have been heard on National Public Radio for fifteen years. He has written and starred in Road Scholar, a Peabody Award-winning film. His last novel, The Blood Countess, was a national bestseller.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684803143
• ISBN 13: 9780684803142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368