The End of the World
Billy Talen
Sold by The Book Corner, Sunrise, FL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by The Book Corner, Sunrise, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 8 August 2017
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket42-43,890-CO, looks unread, text like new, VERY GOOD READING COPY, tight spine, clean pages, NO highlighting/markings, very fine cover.
Seller Inventory # 42-43,890-CO
"The End of the World is so astonishingly brilliant that it almost hurts to read it, but at the same time so wise and loving and full of yearning..." —Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickel and Dimed
"Reverend Billy's The End of the World is the beginning of wisdom. Its comedy is just camouflage for its truths, which are dead earnest -- that is to say, if we don't take them dead seriously, we may end up seriously dead." —Benjamin Barber, author, Jihad vs. McWorld
Children: hurricanes swamp our coasts! Fracking poisons our drinking water! Mountain tops are bulldozed into streams! The end of the world is nigh!
In pages that crackle with the lightning of an electric storm, the Reverend Billy, messianic leader of the Church of Stop Shopping, thunders from his pulpit, sounding the tocsin on the toxins that are poisoning our planet.
The Mayan calendar points to the final apocalypse descending on us in December 2012. Evangelicals have been raising hell about the coming Rapture since the death of their Christ.
But the good Reverend’s eschatology is less scriptural. Rather it is rooted in the environmental disasters that rampant capitalism and couldn’t-care-less governments are visiting on our world.
As the fish and forests perish, our future here on earth looks bleaker than ever. But, our Reverend insists in a sequence of surreally imagined sermons, we cannot be passive congregants in the face of our own demise.
Rather, with soaring parables from protests as far apart as the bank lobbies of Barcelona and the underground police cells of New York City, our preacher raises a resounding “Earthallujah!”, turning back the devils of debt and destruction, rallying those of radical faith to save themselves and save us all.
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