# The Messiah

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- Authors: [Gore Vidal](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 1998-01-01

## Description

When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's...

## Editions

### The Messiah

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-039-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1998-01-01
- Language: en_US