Book Against God A Novel

Name: Book Against God A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312422516

ISBN-10: 0312422512

ISBN-13: 9780312422516

Edition: Revised

Authors: James Wood

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Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents’ religiousness. When his father, a beloved parish priest, suddenly falls ill, Bunting returns to the Northern village of his childhood. Bunting’s hopes that this visit might enable him to finally talk honestly with his parents and sort out his wayward life, are soon destroyed. Comic, edgy, lyrical, and indignant Bunting gives the term unreliable narrator a…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. In addition to How Fiction Works, he is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, a novel, The Book Against God.