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<p><p>from The Author Of <i>horace Afoot</i> Comes This Affectionate And Beautiful Tale Of A Six-year-old Prodigy With A Photographic Memory And A Penchant For The Gnostic Gospels And Byzantine History.<p>set Against The Background Of Caesar's Palace, <b>henry Of Atlantic City</b> Is A Satirical &#8220;hagiography&#8221; Of A Troubled Child Trying To Make Sense Of The World Around Him. Henry, Whose Imagination Has Been Fed By Ancient Texts, Finds Himself Living In A Conflated World Of Past And Present Where Casino Owners Are Byzantine Emperors, And The World Is Populated By Huns, Cappadocians, And Visigoths. When His Father, A Casino Security Guard, Lands In Trouble With The Mob, Henry Begins A Peripatetic Life Wandering From Relatives To Foster Homes To Orphanages. As Henry Struggles To Find A Place For Himself In The World, We Are Treated To An Exploration Of Spirituality And Childhood That Is Heartbreaking, Uplifting, And Simply Divine.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>a Wonderful Foil For An Uncaring World, Six-year-old Henry Wants To Be A Saint: He's Read Up On Fifth-century Byzantium, And On The Early Christian Heresy Called Gnosticism, And He Brings His Erudition To Bear On S

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Author

Reuss, Frederick, 1960-

Publisher

New York: Vintage Contemporaries

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375726231

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.56 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14