The Messiah Of Morris Avenue
(TONY HENDRA)
In his best-selling memoir, Father Joe, Tony Hendra expressed the
concern that to write a great novel I''ll have to get to know some really wicked
people. Whether he met those people is unknown, but Hendra has written a new
novel about some pretty wicked people and the ways they search for salvation.
In The Messiah of Morris Avenue, Hendra draws a funny, frightening
portrait of a militantly Christian America,
where Hollywood
is rechristened Holywood and two enormous churches vie for control of the hearts
and minds of American citizens. Meanwhile, Jose Kennedy, a Hispanic man living
in the Bronx, begins performing miracles and
preaching about the true trinity: the father, the mother and the son. He claims
to be the second coming of Jesus, come back to earth to explain all the things
he said and did the first time around.
Johnny Greco, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose career was ruined by
the Reverend Sabbath, spiritual adviser to the president and CEO of
fundamentalist Christianity, begins investigating Kennedy for his Internet news
job. When Greco meets the enigmatic Kennedy, he is charmed (as readers will be)
by the quiet passion of the self-proclaimed prophet, but remains skeptical
about his otherworldly origin. The book follows the stories of Greco, Kennedy
and Sabbath as their paths cross and the very future of the world hangs in the
balance.
This story is full of satire and sarcasm, sometimes a little too close to
reality to actually be funny. What this book has to say about media, religion
and culture is as valid in our society as in Hendra''s imagined one.
Greco guides us through this story with the clear-eyed skepticism one would
expect from a seasoned journalist, allowing readers to draw their own
conclusions about whether anyone in this tale really got the redemption they
were looking for, or if redemption is even possible. And while the ending of
this book is inevitable, you''ll still want to go along for the ride with Jose''s
Apostle Posse.
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