The Messiah

ISBN: 9780141180397

出版社: Penguin USA

出版年: 1998-1

页数: 256

定价: $ 17.00

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.