"Messi@h" (a probably excellent new novel)
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soc.culture.jewish, and alt.religion.christianity.
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*Major* deja vu - or something!
In any case, here's the summary from the book jacket of a new novel, "Messi@h"
(author: Andrei Codrescu). The book sounds very interesting; I just bought it
yesterday, so I can't offer any comments on it yet.
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"...Set from December 1999 to Mardi Gras 2000, 'Messiah' introduces two
remarkable young women: Felicity, a girl detective in New Orleans, and
Andrea, a Sarajevan orphan who has found asylum in Jerusalem after internment
in a Serbian POW camp. Felicity and Andrea, both presciently self-aware, come
to believe they are the two severed halves of a whole identity, eventually
finding each other amid the chaos of millennial fervor. Their special
mission: to fulfill an extraordinary destiny as Armageddon sweeps the earth.
In the months prior to their fated meeting, the charismatic Felicity attracts
a group of followers, a tribe of pierced and tattooed young drifters called
Shades, who, under the direction of Felicity and her inimitable uncle, Major
Notz, come into epic conflict with their various enemies. Chief among them
are Mullin, a powerful Christian fundamentalist preacher, and his ghoulish
coteries of militant religious fanatics. All factions strive to establish
themselves as saviors at the world's end and seek to manipulate the
allegiances of the populace through all branches of the media. In the Big
Easy at the turn of the century, there seems to be no shortage of would-be
Messiahs.
'Messiah' is host to a world turned upside down, a universe teeming with
battling eschatological forces, sexual and psychological perversity, and
unlikely heroes. The interpenetration of earthly sensuality, prophecy, and
cyperspace renders a complex and pulsating tale."
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Can't wait to read it! :)
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In article <7apdp7$4e4$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
Susan Cohen
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Susan Cohen <ze...@smart.NOSPAMnet> wrote:
> This has no relevence to soc.culture.jewish.
Well, how's that the case? One of the two main characters in the novel is
Jewish (or is thought to be; her identity isn't that clear at the beginning
of the book). Also, the novel is set partly in Jerusalem.
Also, you didn't object to my other recent soc.culture.jewish posts: one was
on the book "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and
Space-Time" (wasn't Einstein Jewish? I could've sworn he was!). My other
recent s.c.j. post was my "Hurray for Placebo! (DC Concert Writeup)" post on
the excellent new alternative music band Placebo, whose lead singer, Brian
Molko, is Jewish or half-Jewish (which I did mention in the concert writeup,
by the way).
Jim Collier
>
> In article <36D63D0C...@smart.NOSPAMnet>,
> Susan Cohen <ze...@smart.NOSPAMnet> wrote:
>
> > This has no relevence to soc.culture.jewish.
>
> Well, how's that the case? One of the two main characters in the novel is
> Jewish (or is thought to be; her identity isn't that clear at the beginning
> of the book). Also, the novel is set partly in Jerusalem.
Super. Always glad to hear of a Jewish character in a novel that
wasn't written by Joseph Heller or Philip Roth.
>
> Also, you didn't object to my other recent soc.culture.jewish posts: one was
> on the book "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and
> Space-Time" (wasn't Einstein Jewish? I could've sworn he was!).
I swear.
> My other
> recent s.c.j. post was my "Hurray for Placebo! (DC Concert Writeup)" post on
> the excellent new alternative music band Placebo, whose lead singer, Brian
> Molko, is Jewish or half-Jewish (which I did mention in the concert writeup,
> by the way).
Hmm. Partly in Jerusalem and "partly" Jewish. Maybe his mother
came out the womb of her mother right on the city limits. To tell the
truth, I know nothing of Brian Molko, but Bill Cohen the Secretary
of Defense is not, technically speaking, half Jewish.
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