Jack Womack
Heathern
- ISBN 13:
- 9780802135636
- author:
- Jack Womack
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1998
- Pages:
- 224
- Genre:
- Books
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century. Jack Womack's novel follows Thatcher Dryden, former drug kingpin and leader of megacorporation Dryco, as he attempts to supply a waiting world with the Messiah it so desperately seeks. However, his plans are complicated by Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher who performs miracles among the human flotsam of the Lower East Side. As Thatcher's minions scheme to sell salvation with a Dryco label on it, Thatcher's own mistress becomes strangely drawn to Macaffrey - and begins to be transformed into something new and strange. This transformation might change the world, but Womack's tautly written and appallingly funny novel is more concerned with the complexities of human nature than with grand predictions. The result is a thought-provoking exploration of power, control, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world.