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In this devilishly clever collection of short fiction, renowned
humorist Owen Egerton leads us on a wildly surprising, darkly
comic, and often heart-wrenching ride into the terrible beauty of
life's end. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a
crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonder of
life, knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be
panhandling for your soul.
* Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the
incurable inmates. .Now the asylum is being shut down. Everyone
Says That at the End of the World traces the adventures of a
ghost-haunted slacker couple expecting their first child, an
outrageously arrogant television actor seeking redemption and a
prophetic hermit crab on a cross-country quest as they struggle to
survive the final four days of life on Earth. Inter-dimensional
time travelers, Jesus clones, and prosthetic limbs all play a role
in the catastrophic events leading to the planet's end.
Combining humor, philosophical inquiry and unforgettable
characters, Egerton leads us through the most bizarre apocalypse
ever put to paper.
The 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 narrator of the novel,
is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly
bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow
Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a
mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this
motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided
converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of
off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes,
absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that
saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as
bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.
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