Three years after the Armistice, a mob in Western City riots to stop the showing of a German film, and the narrator, Billy, takes refuge in a church. There a figure steps out of a stained-glass window and comes home with him as a quiet stranger called Mr. Carpenter, who soon meets strikers, soup-kitchens, newspapermen and a Hollywood producer known as T-S.
Sinclair’s satire of postwar hysteria and the film business imagines how modern America would greet the Gospel taken literally. Download the free EPUB.