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A very minor prophet a novel

A Very Minor Prophet is the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee, and, while his congregation throws PBR cans at him, rants about George W. Bush during the height of the 2004 presidential election. Barth's Portland is a world of bikes, zines, and cheap beer, but it's also a confined world, full of the desperate search to find meaning. In this lonely setting, Barth passes time learning trivial details, like the.

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  • "A Very Minor Prophetis the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee, and, while his congregation throws PBR cans at him, rants about George W. Bush during the height of the 2004 presidential election. Barth's Portland is a world of bikes, zines, and cheap beer, but it's also a confined world, full of the desperate search to find meaning. In this lonely setting, Barth passes time learning trivial details, like the dozens of Gaelic words for rain."
  • "An aimless young barista in 2004 Portland, Oregon, finds inspiration from a fiery dwarf preacher's positivity, and soon has feelings for the bike messenger who helps distribute the preacher's literature."
  • "A Very Minor Prophet is the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee, and, while his congregation throws PBR cans at him, rants about George W. Bush during the height of the 2004 presidential election. Barth's Portland is a world of bikes, zines, and cheap beer, but it's also a confined world, full of the desperate search to find meaning. In this lonely setting, Barth passes time learning trivial details, like the."@en

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  • "Experimental fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "A very minor prophet"
  • "A very minor prophet a novel"@en
  • "A very minor prophet : the gospel according to Joseph Patrick Booker, as interpreted by his faithful scribe, Barth Flynn : a novel"