The book of Harold
Subtitle: the illegitimate son of God
By: Owen Egerton
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593764838; 9781593764388
Subjects: Fiction; Messiah; Sales personnel
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Austin, Tex. : Dalton Pub., 2010.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 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.; title: 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.; title: 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.