Jeremiah 820 Author:Carol Hill A disenfranchised white man's maniacal obsession with becoming a "Master of the Universe" in New York City in the 1960's. What one is not prepared for is the power and vast scope of this first novel: following Jeremiah Francis Scanlon (fat, balding, and 39) throughout New York City, Carol Hill has gotten down the madness of our times; racism, ... more »obsessions with money, sex and power, loss of contact with the past; and given us a vision of the future that is at once a desperate comedy and a harrowing rehearsal of the apocalypse.
Robert Gross, Newsweek "You should buy Carol Hill's extraordinary book... simply as a novel of character, Jeremiah 8:20 works superbly... if you can't identify with Jeremiah Francis Scanlon you probably can't identify with yourself. This remarkable novel moves from the particular to the prophetic, from man to myth."