[bksvol-discuss] Re: American Savior, by Roland Murillo
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:11:04 -0400
It sounds great but I can't get it right now, my libraries don't have it.
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] American Savior, by Roland Murillo
A member is very anxious to read American Savior, by Roland Murillo. I've
posted a description from PW below. It sounds like a very funny book but
not to everyone's taste.
Cindy
From Publishers' Weekly: "When Jesus Christ turns up in West Zenith,
Mass., Catholics, Jews and atheists unite to help him realize his plan of
becoming America's next president in this hilarious novel from Merullo
(Breakfast with Buddha). Chief adviser to the Jesus for America campaign
is Russ Thomas, a cynical TV journalist who sets out to convince the
American public that Jesus is the real deal. Jesus' chances of being
elected seem slim as he faces skepticism from both ends of the political
spectrum over his platform of kindness and goodness and the fact that he
names his mother as his running mate. But as Jesus hits the campaign
trail, Russ and his team begin to have faith in their candidate,
themselves and humanity. Most enjoyable are the takedowns of thinly veiled
political journalists: there's loud-mouthed, insult-spewing Anne Canter
and Bulf Spritzer, a decent guy [who] can never quite convince the viewer
that he isn't ecstatic about being in the
limelight. The result is, for the most part, an uproarious satire,
hampered only by Merullo's occasional slips into the preachiness about
morality that he so harshly mocks. (Aug.)
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