The Book Against God

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 06/01/2004
ISBN: 9780312422516
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/20/2004 pg. 20