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Son of the Morning (novel)
''Son of the Morning'' is a 1978 novel by American author Joyce Carol Oates. The book was first published on August 1, 1978 through Vanguard Press.
==Synopsis==
Elsa Vickery, daughter of agnostic small town doctor and his pious wife is gang-raped at the age of seventeen. Her father cannot obtain legal abortion. The boy Nathan is brought up by his grandmother as a devoted Christian. At the age of seven he begins to experience visions of Christ. When the boy is eight, his grandfather reads the Gospel for the first time in thirty years and is horrified: "The man was a cruel psychopath" Soon after than he dies from a stroke, a reader must decide for himself whether this was a punishment for blasphemy.
Nathan becomes a boy preacher, then a leader of a church, which is accumulating wast riches from donation. His visions with every year are more and more grandiose. Once he is almost seduced into fornication and puts out his eye in self-punishment for this.
Suddenly he feels that God has forsaken him, and his life is turned into endless suffering. A reader must decide for himself, whether this is a punishment for pride and lust for power or clinical depression.
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