Messiah

Author: Gore Vidal

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780349103648
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Sphere
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Weight (g) : 0.18
Publication date : 01 January 1993
Dimensions : 20.00 cmmm X 13.20 cmmm X 1.80 cmmm
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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. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, 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.

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