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Synopsis
Disillusioned by the indifference of the crumple-faced girl he adores and by the dismal decline of his beloved Everton, 10-year-old Michael McBride is increasingly sceptical about the credentials of the God that his terrifying schoolteachers and Catholic fundamentalist grandmother would have him pray to night and day and even on the toilet. Meanwhile, as the millennium draws to a close, the Creator himself is feeling the effects of age: his remote control is on the blink, he is drinking more than he should and, to the alarm of those around him, he has taken to plagiarising Shakespeare.Through the eyes of his fading but furious Maker, this irreverent three-part novel follows Michael from his childhood in the Merseyside of the 1970s, through the wild sexual escapades of his adolescence, to a final unholy showdown amid the olive groves of Puglia.
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About the Author
Paul Andrew Jarvis was born in Birkenhead, England, where he attended a Christian Brothers' Catholic school. He studied French and English at the University of Sheffield, then trained as a teacher of Modern Languages at Goldsmiths', University of London. Since 1991 he has been teaching English at the University of Bari in Italy, where he also works as a freelance translator. He is the author of the comic novel "The Wooden-Legged Elephant" (first published in Italian as "Dio Non Sta Bene", Le Bolle Blu Edizioni, 2010), of a number of books for English language students, and of two bilingual stories for children: "Misery Puss - Micio Musone", Extremathule Edizioni, 2009; "Jimmy Squirrel & the Crazy Market - Jimmy Scoiattolo e il Mercato Matto", Createspace, 2013.
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