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Get on Top Paperback - 1999

by David Homel

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What would happen if the Messiah was a woman, and not the man people have always taken her to be? What if she showed up in rural America, instead of riding triumphantly into Jerusalem? If she preached moral license, not repentance?

All of that does happen, and more, in this startlingly original, mischievous and penetrating novel by David Homel.

In Homel's tale of theology and erotics, Nathan Gazarra, a Hebew peddler, travels the backroads, from town to town, among tobacco-growers, mystics and illiterates, selling notions and sundries. While he's at it, Gazarra mixes in a little preaching, because he has a secret, burning wish: to be the one to discover the Messiah in this most unlikely of places.

When he meets up with Sabbitha Hunter, a woman of disturbing beauty on the run from her home town, he decides to make her his Chosen One. Sabbitha takes the mantle of the Messiah, because with it comes the kind of power she had always dreamed of. When she invites the townsfolk and country people to follow her into heroic sinning, all hell breaks loose.

But it takes a lot of energy and imagination to sin and keep on sinning. And when Sabbitha's followers start getting rough, even the Messiah's life will be in danger.

David Homel has created an irreverent, earthy, astonishing story, full of insight into the nature of evil--and love.

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  • Title Get on Top
  • Author David Homel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Talonbooks, Toronto
  • Publication date 1999
  • ISBN 9780773760486 / 0773760482
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99460601
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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David Homel
Award-winning author and literary translator David Homel also works as a journalist, editor and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago in 1952 but left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and continued his education in Europe and Toronto before settling in Montreal in around 1980. He worked at a variety of industrial jobs before beginning to write fiction in the mid-1980s. His six novels to date have been translated into several languages and published around the world.

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