'World on Fire picks up where Magnificent Vibration left off: with the hapless Bobby Cotton and his beloved bride (and former nun), Alice, having unleashed a global pandemic that's fast wiping out half the world's population - and at God's request.
'Bobby guides a very pregnant Alice and a motley crew of survivors to the Holy Land, darting through the hazards of a world that has fallen to pieces in a way more thorough than any we have seen.
'But Bobby's newborn daughter is born with astonishing abilities, and she's not alone. A miraculous Convergence is headed for Galilee, where the stakes include survival of the Earth as we know it and the human race.
'By turns hilarious and deadly serious, World on Fire explores the fate of the Earth in an utterly original way.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Magnificent Vibration
New York (City)
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Touchstone [New York]
,
2014
9436379
2014
single work
novel
humour
'"Why are we here? What is love? Is there a Loch Ness monster? Does God send text messages?" These are the kinds of questions Horatio Cotton, aka Bobby Cotton, asks in Rick Springfield’s first novel, Magnificent Vibration.
After stealing a mysterious self-help book called Magnificent Vibration: Discover Your True Purpose from a bookstore, Bobby calls the 1-800 number scrawled inside the front cover, only to discover that he has a direct line to God. This launches Bobby on a whimsical quest, serendipitously accompanied by a breathtakingly sexy and exceedingly sharp travel companion named Alice. Together the pair sets out to find some combination of spiritual and carnal salvation—and possibly save the planet.'
[Source: www.magnificentvibration.com]
