They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming [Paperback]

Upton Sinclair (Author)

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Publication Date: August 20, 2007

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar (August 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1434645711
• ISBN-13: 978-1434645715
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,084,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful sacrelige, March 21, 2011

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This review is from: They Call Me Carpenter (Kindle Edition)

The Savior comes to post WWI industrial America to weigh in on a labor relations and post war reactionary politics. A brilliant set-up for a satire, executed sharply and funnily. I love it, but I have a high tolerance for Socialist thinking and sacrelige.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Read, December 10, 2008

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This review is from: They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

I had to read this for a History class I was taking and I thought to myself, "Oh great, a novel written in the 20's." I expected it to be slow and dry. On the contrary, it was one of the most exciting novels I had read for quite some time. This acts as an exposition of Southern California in the early 20's in the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair. Great read, fast read, interesting read. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars They Call Me Carpenter, December 7, 2008

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Breanna Holm "Breanna Holm" (San Diego, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

They Call Me Carpenter is a very interesting book about what it would be like if Jesus were to have his Second Coming during the 1920s. It is very though provoking to think about how Jesus would interpret our everyday experiences and what his overall perspective of what the world has come to would be. Sinclair brings attention to the continuing hositility and differences of race and social class during this time, despite the theory of these problems stopping or at least slowing by the end of the Progressive Era in 1919. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it!