- Fiction, Fiction in English, Literature, Second Advent
What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portend for the future western civilization?
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Epic, open-ended, meticulous and plot-driven.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Robbins
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 337
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Ballantine, Doubleday
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781842431603
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