Messiah

· Pickle Partners Publishing
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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.-Print ed.

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Linda Everist
12 July 2017
Freaky!
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About the author

GORE VIDAL (1925-2012) was an American writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays, and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life; the polished, erudite style of narration readily evokes the time and place of the story, and perceptively delineates the psychology of the characters.

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