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Overview
For a thousand years there has always been a George Mills---a common man whose lot in life is to serve important personages. Eternally cursed to blindly follow, and to love, his various lieges, for ten centuries George Mills has toiled in many a lord's stable, sultan's harem, and king's army---marching off to far, bloody Crusades along with great multitudes of his kind. And the latest in this long, blue-collared line---a St. Louis furniture mover of the dispossessed---is no different, a student of his family's history yet doomed to repeat it. But this George has a chance, for he's on the road to salvation. And faith has nothing to do with it.Synopsis
Since the time of the First Crusade, every generation of the Mills family has been consigned by fate to an unfulfilling, servile existence. And each successive Mills has had a son, George, to perpetuate the family plight through history. Whether a stable hand in feudal Europe or a prisoner in an Ottoman harem, each George Mills falls prey to his hereditary misfortune—until the modern George Mills threatens to reverse this fate once and for all. Written with penetrating insight and wit, George Mills is an engrossing story of one man’s salvation, and an unforgettable defense of free will in even the most overwhelming of circumstances. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
The New York Times
A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter.