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The Book Against God - by James Wood (Paperback)

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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.
  • About the Author: James Wood was chief literary critic of The Guardian (London) and is senior editor at The New Republic.
  • 272 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



The story of a husband and wife, a father and son, faith and disbelief, and a hero who couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it, this novel is at once hilarious and poignant; and it introduces an original comic voice.



Book Synopsis



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.



Review Quotes




"How then, does Wood's first novel measure up against his own exacting criteria? The answer is: remarkably well. Like Wood's criticism, The Book Against God is full of ideas, irony, and intelligence." --The Miami Herald

"Wood has written his own big-thing novel, his first, which has to do with literature and faith but is also, happily, laden with wit, forceful images, and English eccentrics." --The New York Times Book Review

"Intellectually stimulating and amusing first novel [Wood] mixes serious questions of theology and family relationships so tactfully, cunningly even, that they go down as smoothly as the scotch Tom keeps hidden in the bottle under his bed." --The Washington Post




About the Author



James Wood was chief literary critic of The Guardian (London) and is senior editor at The New Republic. His first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 272
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: James Wood
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 2004
TCIN: 91221282
UPC: 9780312422516
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-8202
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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