{"product_id":"9780544390447","title":"The Eternal Footman","description":"\u003cb\u003eCan civilization survive the untimely demise of God? “A buoyant romp . . . superlatively intelligent and entertaining” (\u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Completing the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s darkly comic trilogy, \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Footman\u003c\/i\u003e brings us into a future world in which God’s skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of “death awareness” spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty, who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe’s stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. And a chilling villain in the person of Dr. Adrian Lucido—founder of a new pagan church in Mexico, and inventor of a cure worse than any disease . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Morrow hilariously joins the ranks of the great satirists.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[An] insanely ingenious plot, reminiscent, variously, of B-science-fiction movies in the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh’s \u003ci\u003eThe Loved One\u003c\/i\u003e, and Terry Southern at his most charmingly deranged.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Any novel that springs from a sparkling intellect rather than a dreary neurosis is cause for celebration, and \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Footman\u003c\/i\u003e, with its load of truth and laughter, justifies a considerable quantity of champagne.” —Tom Robbins, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123108823280,"sku":"9780544390447","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544390447_p0.jpg?v=1769916629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544390447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}