One More Sunday

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John D. MacDonald—author of such recent best sellers as Cinnamon Skin, Free Fall in Crimson, and Condominium—now gives us a powerful new novel about the legacy of an influential and charismatic American television preacher; a novel that lays bare the high-stakes, high-profit big business of saving souls.
The place: Meadows Center, on the outskirts of a sleepy Southern town; a jealously guarded but ever-expanding all-new complex of offices, residences, schools, shops, temples of worship—the home and headquarters of the fundamentalist sect known as the Eternal Church of the Believer. Meadows Center: where armies of believers staffing state-of-the-art computer equipment solicit and process the thousands and thousands of dollars that pour in daily from their fellow faithful where a choir of Meadows Angels sings on cue as the TV cameras roll .and where, off camera, old Matthew Meadows himself is slowly, secretly dying. Meadows Center: a mecca for those who have proved their faith,... Tovább

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John D. MacDonald—author of such recent best sellers as Cinnamon Skin, Free Fall in Crimson, and Condominium—now gives us a powerful new novel about the legacy of an influential and charismatic American television preacher; a novel that lays bare the high-stakes, high-profit big business of saving souls.
The place: Meadows Center, on the outskirts of a sleepy Southern town; a jealously guarded but ever-expanding all-new complex of offices, residences, schools, shops, temples of worship—the home and headquarters of the fundamentalist sect known as the Eternal Church of the Believer. Meadows Center: where armies of believers staffing state-of-the-art computer equipment solicit and process the thousands and thousands of dollars that pour in daily from their fellow faithful where a choir of Meadows Angels sings on cue as the TV cameras roll .and where, off camera, old Matthew Meadows himself is slowly, secretly dying. Meadows Center: a mecca for those who have proved their faith, a fortress for those select few whose faith is never questioned, an arena where a drama of tragic human weakness is being enacted.
The players: the Reverend John Tinker Meadows, faced with increasing, and undeniable, evidence of his own spiritual bankruptcy as he assumes, with perfectly displayed reverence, his father's mantle as spiritual leader of the Church the Reverend Sister Mary Margaret Meadows, blind to the significance (and sinfulness) of her own gluttony Finn Efflander, whose most important duty is to make indistinguishable—to the IRS and to the Church members—the line between the clerical and the corporate .Joe Deets, creator of the computer system that forms the Church's vital link to its members—himself a minister (nominally) with an overtly unspiritual appetite for beautiful young women .Walter Macy, a fearful and righteous clergyman who would nonetheless stoop to blackmail—or worse—to insure his position as John Tinker's successor. Roy Owen, a stranger in Meadows Center, whose lonely search for his missing journalist wife is thwarted at every turn—
Unfolding through these lives is a tale of extortion and intrigue, of sexual exploitation and moral ambigu-
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ity, of murder and redemption, of the tainted reality that exists behind the facade of moral rectitude and holiness that the leaders of the Eternal Church present to the world. An enthralling work of fiction from one of our most gifted and successful novelists. Vissza