They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming - Hardcover

Sinclair, Upton

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9798888300381: They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming
Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9798888300381
Publisher: Bibliotech Press, 2022

Synopsis

They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming is a novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1922 that exposed the new and upcoming culture of 1920s Southern California, namely Hollywood. Sinclair does this by using Jesus, or Carpenter as Sinclair calls him, as a literary figure.


The story takes place in the fictional locale Western City. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy then stumbles into a church and is visited by Carpenter, that is Jesus, who walks out of a stained glass window. Carpenter is shocked and appalled by upper-class culture. The story then roughly follows the biblical account of the Ministry of Jesus. In the end, Carpenter decides to escape the corroded culture by jumping back into the stained glass window whence he came. (wikipedia.org)

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Publisher
Bibliotech Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 13 
9798888300381
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
160
Rating
  • 3.76 out of 5 stars
    106 ratings by Goodreads