Bibliograph

The book of Harold, the illegitimate son of God, Owen Egerton

Type

Label

The book of Harold, the illegitimate son of God, Owen Egerton

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The book of Harold

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

809769070

Responsibility statement

Owen Egerton

Sub title

the illegitimate son of God

Summary

During a boring office party, a middle-aged suburbanite announces that he is the Second Coming of Christ and embarks on a two-hundred mile walk to Austin with a group of misfit and mismatched disciplesThe Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him.Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrat

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