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Book SynopsisBoy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.
Trade Review“Frederick Manfred’s semi-autobiographical second novel,
Boy Almighty, is an eloquent, literary masterpiece of a young man’s life-and-death struggle with tuberculosis. The Iowa native’s poignant reflections on love, mortality, and faith are timeless reminders of what it means to be a human being.”—Stuart Rosebrook, editor of
True West magazine
Table of ContentsI. Return to the Matrix
II. The Song Unsung
III. Flickerings
IV. Old Voices Awaken
V. The Foetus Plays
VI. Briefed for Battle
VII. The Whipper Recognized
VIII. Foolishness
IX. The Whipper Seen Again
X. Enter Satan Deeble
XI. Relapse
XII. The Flame Clears
XIII. The Flame Quickens
XIV. The Whipper: Another View
XV. Hunger for the Red Bone
XVI. Whittlings
XVII. Greens, Reds, Bloody Reds
XVIII. Lamps in the Night
XIX. Fantasy in the Storm
XX. A Door Opens
XXI. The Flame Is Dampered
XXII. The New Woman
XXIII. Drifting
XXIV. The Door Opens Again
XXV. The Foetus Stirs
XXVI. Adventure
XXVII. A Lane and a Pasture
XXVIII. The Whipper Strikes
XXIX. Alarm in the Night
XXX. A Song Is Sung
XXXI. The Whipper Described
XXXII. The Whipper Strikes Again
XXXIII. Lament
XXXIV. Loneliness
XXXV. Rebuff
XXXVI. Re-enter Satan
XXXVII. Satan Tempts Eric
XXXVIII. The Way Widens
XXXIX. Descent Into Hell
XL. The Whipper as a Woman
XLI. Sparks
XLII. Activity
XLIII Labor Pains
XLIV. Cast from the Matrix Again
XLV. Brief Victory
