The book of Harold
Owen Egerton · 2012
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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 disciples. 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 narrat.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Soft Skull Press
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9781593764838
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