The Eternal Footman (The Godhead Trilogy)

Completing the World Fantasy Award-winning author’s darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman 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. A few highlights include a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites, a theater troupe’s stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic, a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus, and a chilling villain in the personage of Dr. Adrian Lucido―founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease...

About the Author

James Morrow is an award-winning fiction author who has been writing since his seventh birthday. After receiving degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, he went on to write Only Begotten Daughter, which won the 1991 World Fantasy Award. He currently resides with his wife, their sheepdog, and their beagle in State College, Pennsylvania.Eric G. Dove is a full-time voice actor, musician, and author, who released his first novel, Ghosts of Royston, in 2013 and who has several Nashville song cuts to his name. The winner of multiple Earphones awards, he has narrated over seventy audiobooks. A native of Ohio, he lives in Charleston, South Carolina. For more information, visit ericgdove.com.

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