Heathern - Softcover

Womack, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812508726 ISBN 13: 9780812508727

Publisher: Tor Books, 1991

Synopsis

Heathern, the sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a "savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity ... his best so far!" Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century.Thatcher Dryden, former drug kingpin and now leader of the megacorporation Dryco, intends to supply a waiting world with the Messiah it so desperately seeks. But Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher found performing miracles among the human flotsam of the Lower East Side, proves no more controllable than any Messiah. While Thatcher's minions scheme to sell the world salvation with a Dryco label on it, Thatcher's own mistress is strangely drawn to Macaffrey -- and begins to be transformed into something new and strange ... something that might change the world.

About this title

Synopsis:

The tale of a new messiah's rise and fall is told by Joanna, a corporate executive and mistress whose deadened sensibilities are awakened by the religious leader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0812508726
• ISBN 13: 9780812508727
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 215