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Messi@

A Novel

Andrei Codrescu
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Pages
362
Year
2015
Language
English

About

At the end of the millennium, as Armageddon looms, two young women from opposite sides of the world unite as humanity's last hope for salvation In New Orleans, private investigator Felicity LeJeune has made it her mission to bring down the corrupt televangelist Reverend Mullin, leader of the United Ministries, who filched two million dollars in lottery winnings from Felicity's unassuming grandmother. Meanwhile, Mullin's flock of religious fundamentalists bombards the media with threats of catastrophic horror if people refuse to accept him as their savior.   Across the globe, the mysterious Sarajevan orphan Andrea Isbik escapes a Serbian POW camp and finds asylum in Jerusalem, where she seduces cavalcades of religious scholars before finally landing in the Big Easy herself. There, amid the reverie of Mardi Gras, something dark is building. Surrounded by a wild cast of characters, Andrea and Felicity join forces to combat the impending apocalypse, fending off millennial fervor and Mullin's fanatical followers as the world's religions converge on New Orleans for the end of days.   This riveting novel links our most ancient imaginings of Armageddon with our contemporary worship of technology.

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"An erudite zydeco hora danced on the head of the millennial pin, [Messi@] is wild enough to be fun, crazy enough to be perfectly true."
Tom Robbins
"How good is Andrei Codrescu's book? He imagines a future so like our present in its narcissism, its media obsession, its millennial craziness, that it does not make me scream 'Oh Christ, no not another future!' He uses our language so elegantly, with such wit and verve, that he makes me think the secret to writing great English is to be born speaking Rumanian."
Harry Shearer
"Andrei Codrescu's [Messi@] visits the famous turf of Isaac Singer, where the super-real commingles with the supernatural, with brilliant weavings of fin-de-siècle characters. . . . Ancient desires for eternity commingle with the high tech modem/modern. . . . What does salvation mean in an era of digital mania? Codrescu has his lobes glowing full furnace looking for an answers."
Harry Shearer

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