The Eternal Footman
core novel 1999 Godhead Trilogy
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (604 ratings, collected 2026-11-03) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780151293254 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
God's skull hangs in orbit above Times Square, and its presence has set off the Abulic Plague, a deadly epidemic. Each victim is haunted by a personal fetch, a double that tries to lead its victim to the grave. Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher, learns that her young son Kevin has caught the disease. She sets out through a changed country toward Coatzacoalcos in Mexico, where a doctor is said to have a cure, and meets Gerard Korty, a sculptor building a massive brain sculpture from an asteroid fragment. Anthony Van Horne, the captain from the first book, sails her across the Gulf of Mexico.
Where it sits
- Universe: Godhead Trilogy
- Series: Godhead Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: James Morrow
Notes
- From the series record (Godhead Trilogy): Three satirical novels, each with a different protagonist, set in a world where God has died and left a giant corpse.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Godhead Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Blameless in Abaddon (1996)
Sources
- Wikipedia: James Morrow
- Publishers Weekly listing (Harcourt Brace, 1999)
- James Morrow official site: The Eternal Footman
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