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During a boring office party, a middle-aged suburbanite announces that he is the Second Coming of Christ and embarks on a two-hundred mile walk to Austin with a group of misfit and mismatched disciples
The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him. Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrat
Originally published: Austin, Tex. : Dalton Pub., 2010
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BOOK I; Nativity; Day of Declaration; An Introduction to Haroldism; The Office Miracle; Sand; Another Miracle; The Pickles Miracle; My Prayer for Pickles; It Would Have Been Wiser to Say Nothing at All; My Daughter; Stay, Stay; Released; Lump on the Lump; Blue Harold; Head Shakes and Shrugs; An Introduction to Haroldism: First Baptism; Mrs. Saint Peter; Figwood; The Haunted World; Harold's Sanity; Irma, or How My Wife Lost Her Housekeeper; An Introduction to Haroldism: Irma Bragston; Most Treasured Memory; Questions; No Sky at All; Sight; Waves; Surprise; Moving Out; Dreaming of Now
QuestionsFollowing; The Beast Is the Least; BOOK II; Packing; First Steps; An Introduction to Haroldism: Community Pilgrimage; Pain; Why Austin?; Unpacking; The Hot Tub Incident; Relic; Beddy; An Introduction to Haroldism:Solo Pilgrimage; As We Walked; The Girl I Never Made Love To; The Bath Tub Incident; Possum; Mother Irma; First Words; Hiding; Peter and Prayer; Beddy's Bible; Whisper in Corners; Beddy's Breathing; Safe Jobs; Thrack; Hands; Here; Burial; Shape; Value; What Shaped Harold; Two Mirrors Dancing; Gratitude; Arousal Day; An Introduction to Haroldism: Arousal Day
Reverend PattersonBorders on the Boundless; Hush; Driftwood; My Warmth; Feet; Light; Whiskey; Another Confession; Shrug; Tremble; Christmas; Blood; Fast; Everything Must Go; An Introduction to Haroldism: Renouncers; Austin; Springs; An Introduction to Haroldism: Feast of the Fast; Right as Rain; Glow and Shadows; Harold's Confession; Bus; Sorry Sight; The Damage I Did to Peter; Questions; BOOK III; Home; God's Missing Leg; What Harold Wanted; Peter is Planning; My Wife Died; I Know; Hermit; Went All Names; God; Beddy Is Dead; Martyr; Don't Have Any More Babies
An Introduction to Haroldism: "Don't Have Any More Babies."The Quote That Saves My Life; Never; Trust; Lost; Tonight Is the Night; Today of All Days; Billions of Words; Wake Up; Closed; Dies; Waterson Fires; Peeks Falls; An Introduction to Haroldism: Self-Examination; Stop Salvation; An Introduction to Haroldism: Second Baptism; Today; Acknowledgments; About the Author

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Owen Egerton

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Counterpoint Press

Catapult

Place of publication not identified, 2012

United States, United States of America

Berkeley, California, 2012

United States, 2012

2, 2012

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Originally published: Austin, Tex. : Dalton Pub., 2010.
Print version record.

The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him.
Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.

2023-06-28