Can civilization survive the untimely demise of God? âA buoyant romp . . . superlatively intelligent and entertainingâ (The Baltimore Sun).
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Completing the World Fantasy Awardâwinning authorâs darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which Godâs skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of âdeath awarenessâ 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.
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A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupeâs stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. And a chilling villain in the person of Dr. Adrian Lucidoâfounder of a new pagan church in Mexico, and inventor of a cure worse than any disease . . .
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âMorrow hilariously joins the ranks of the great satirists.â âThe Denver Post
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â[An] insanely ingenious plot, reminiscent, variously, of B-science-fiction movies in the 1950s, Evelyn Waughâs The Loved One, and Terry Southern at his most charmingly deranged.â âKirkus Reviews
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âAny novel that springs from a sparkling intellect rather than a dreary neurosis is cause for celebration, and The Eternal Footman, with its load of truth and laughter, justifies a considerable quantity of champagne.â âTom Robbins, New York Timesâbestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues