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Behold the Man

Michael Moorcock · 1968 · Novel

Setting: contemporary / 33 AD (time travel)

Series: Karl Glogauer

Synopsis

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: ChristFiction in EnglishJésusRomanScience fictionFiction, science fiction, generalEnglish Science fictionFiction, generalFiction, science fiction, collections & anthologiesTime travel

isfdb_id: 7879

openlibrary_id: OL2697660W

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