The Book Against God by James Wood
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 new twist with his irrepressible incapacity to tell the truth.
James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Harvard University visiting lecturer. How Fiction Works is his first book, and he's also the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, as well as a novel, The Book Against God, all published by FSG.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312422516 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312422512 |
| Title | The Book Against God |
| Author | James Wood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2004-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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