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Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy PhD (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled 'The Book Against God'. But when his father is suddenly taken ill Thomas returns home, to the tiny village in the north of England where he grew up, and where his father still works as a parish priest. Thomas hopes that at home he may finally be able to communicate honestly with his father, a brilliant and formidable Christian example, and sort out his wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar, as well as an atheist, and he finds, instead, that once at home he only falls back into the disastrous and evasive patterns of his childhood years. James Wood's novel brings a new comic voice to British fiction - edgy, lyrical, intellectual and passionate. The Book Against God explores questions of belief and unbelief, truth and lies, the relation of father and son, and husband and wife, in a tone that is at once poignant and funny. Above all, it introduces readers to the irrepressible presence of its narrator, Thomas Bunting, liar, doubter, and the strangest philosopher in contemporary fiction.
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"It is written with lovely, controlled precision. His descriptions deliver little aesthetic shock-charges of pleasure...There are delights of simple recognition-but there are also deeper emotional depth-charges" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Striking...The Book Against God is a gifted and winning first novel, neatly knotted at the end" (Guardian)
"Thought-provoking and full of sharp-eyed observations of characters and places" (Daily Mail)
"At once hilarious and haunting... It keeps your attention in every sentence" (Bernard O'Donoghue Irish Times)
"A work of skilful craftsmanship, which teasingly engages and disengages one's sympathies" (The Economist)
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"Striking...The Book Against God is a gifted and winning first novel, neatly knotted at the end" (Guardian)
"Thought-provoking and full of sharp-eyed observations of characters and places" (Daily Mail)
"At once hilarious and haunting... It keeps your attention in every sentence" (Bernard O'Donoghue Irish Times)
"A work of skilful craftsmanship, which teasingly engages and disengages one's sympathies" (The Economist)
Now reissued in Vintage paperback alongside the Cape edition of Wood's new novel Upstate – 'Highly intelligent... This is a book that I shall certainly reread, for its comic realism, its warm intelligence, its lack of pretension' A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0224063952
- ISBN 13 9780224063951
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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