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Self-proclaimed JFK assassination expert Sydney Corbert offers the idea of a chocolate Jesus during the Easter holiday to the suffering Bea's Candies, and although the chocolate King of Kings is a hit, Reverend Willy Domingo launches a crusade against the semisweet Messiah. Original.
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Stephan Jaramillo is a chef and a writer living in Berkeley, California. He is the author of the novels, Going Postal and Chocolate Jesus.
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Jaramillo (Going Postal ) lampoons such modern follies as tabloid faith and Internet sex. Sydney Corbet, a lame (literally and figuratively), antisocial, angry-letter writer, recently discharged from a "home for the mildly neurotic," sells his idea for a chocolate Jesus to Mrs. Beals' candy company, which she is defending from takeover by her son. Meanwhile, Reverend Willy, a cable-TV evangelist preaching vegetarianism and fitness ("The prince of peace will kick butt upon returning"), rallies his flock against the chocolate Jesus, ending in an apocalyptic showdown. Sydney's slightly elevated education and loathing for mainstream culture allow commentary on the cultural victims and worshipers who surround him. These include his drunken, gambling brother Marty, who grudgingly houses Sydney but warms when Sydney's idea lands them well-paying jobs at Mrs. Beals; a fanatical German chocolate expert; a Jewish bookie insisting he is a rabbi; two drugged-out, channel-surfing "hit men"; and a power-mad, hamburger franchise manager. Jaramillo's satire makes one laugh, then think. Kevin Grandfield
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- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0425163091
- ISBN 13 9780425163092
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages249
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Condition good, clean. The deliciously funny new novel from the acclaimed author of Going Postal. Now, in Chocolate Jesus, Jaramillo introduces Sydney Corbet, a self-proclaimed JFK assassination scholar who has just come up with the idea of a lifetime -- Chocolate Jesus. This semisweet chocolate Messiah offers salvation for many, especially the nearly extinct Bea's Candies, whose Easter promotion just might turn things around for the company. Everyone knows that the Easter Bunny can't compete with the King of Kings. But no one counted on the Reverend Willy Domingo and his vegetarian fitness zealots, who gather on a crusade against a graven image of Christ that consists of nothing more than empty calories. "Capture(s) the mood and voice of a certain distinctive type of apprentice grown-up". -- New York Times Book Review "Enormously entertaining moments, reverberating with a cynical wit underscored.with heartbreaking poignancy and disillusion.haunting, honest". -- St. Petersburg Times "A very funny book. Jaramillo deserves credit for a crisp and funny style, a dead-on ear for dialogue, but more impressive, an emotional honesty that's rare and wonderful". -- Rocky Mountain News. Seller Inventory # 215
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