Eternal Footman, The, James Morrow
Eternal Footman, The, James Morrow
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Eternal Footman, The

Author: James Morrow

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/09/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Completing the World Fantasy Award-winning authors darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which Gods skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of death awareness 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. A few highlights include a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites, a theater troupes stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic, a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus, and a chilling villain in the personage of Dr. Adrian Lucidofounder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease...

About James Morrow

James Morrow is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Towing Jehovah, the Nebula Award-winning novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima, and the New York Times Notable Book Blameless in Abaddon. His novels include The Last Witchfinder, hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic," and The Philosopher's Apprentice, which received rave reviews from multiple outlets, including the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.

Morrow is a master of the satiric and the surreal who has enjoyed comparison with Twain, Vonnegut, and Updike. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.


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