- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; Library edition edition (3 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224060007
- ISBN-13: 978-0224060004
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,420,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Malachi Thorndyke, former soldier, smuggler, drunk, is living in the South Australian Reclamation when he is given a smuggling job. His mission will take him to the capital of the Christian fundamentalist state that America has become.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In Christendom Cross creates a near-future Earth that has experienced a world-wide Christian revolution and war. The events of the plot take place after this cataclysmic event. The imagined world is frighteningly close, in certain nuances, to our own, and these similarities provide the novel with much of its power. This could be us. With its mix of conspiracy, guilt, media power, genetic manipulation, future war, and, pop-culture hipness, 'Christendom' straddles the real and the fantastic, always asking the reader why this couldn't happen now, and more importantly, what could we do to stop it?
On top of this the narrative is energetic, flashing back into the pasts of various characters, and holding back the impact of the novel's startling central revelation. Christendom asks questions of its reader, but doesn't pull punches, and certainly doesn't dissapoint. Read it quickly, look around at some of things happening in 'this' world, and - depending on your point of view - get a bit worried.
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Unputdownable
20 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback
I read this book a few years ago - very disappointed to see it is out of print. Not my usual kind of genre but I started reading it one morning and didn't stop until I'd finished it that evening. FABULOUS.
(Mr In Between is also good. Found Heartland harrowing.)
(Mr In Between is also good. Found Heartland harrowing.)
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