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This is a hardcover book published without a dust jacket as part of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series (Division of G.K. Hall & Co., Boston) with a First Printing, May 1980. The book was published by E. P Dutton in 1954 and is a reprint of the 1979 edition published by Ballantine Books, New York. When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.
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Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.
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- PublisherGregg Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0839825994
- ISBN 13 9780839825999
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages250
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Book Description Octavo, cloth. Later edition, first printing of the Gregg Press edition. Text offset from that of the 1979 Ballantine Books edition. New introduction by Elizabeth A. Lynn. "Cavism, the religion of suicide, conquers most of the world." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1185. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 190-6. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 106. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 195. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 253. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2488. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#105622). Seller Inventory # 105622
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