God is Dead - Brossura

Currie, Ron

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330449443 ISBN 13: 9780330449441

Casa editrice: Picador, 2008

Riassunto

`[A] stoic poignancy reminiscent of Raymond Carver . . . God Is Dead is a heady cocktail of ideas . . . Currie has proved he can write and write well' Guardian God - or Sora, as she's called - has come to earth to experience its conflicts first hand, but adopting a human form also means assuming human frailty and mortality, and when Sora's death - and her true identity - is discovered, the world is immediately and irrevocably changed. Waves of panic, civil unrest and mass suicide sweep the globe; young men take the future into their own hands, armies go to war over fate versus free will, and parents - in the absence of an alternative, and with nothing else to do on a Sunday - turn their children into objects of worship. God is Dead is truly - and terrifyingly - original; blasphemous and heretical, it's an exceptional debut and a remarkable read. `From its stark title to its startling final page, Ron Currie's novel packs one tight punch of fresh ideas in prose so smart it smarts . . . As a satirist, Currie has only bad news to impart but, as a devotee of Kurt Vonnegut, he does it with such humour, you'll barely notice' Telegraph `As smart and addictive as any debut novel you're likely to pick up this year . . . ' List

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

‘Satirical and wickedly funny . . . A provocative book that is hard to forget’ The Times

L'autore:

Ron Currie's prize-winning fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices, and Night Train. He has been shotrlisted for the Fish International Short Story Award and Swink magazine's Emerging Writer Award. He lives in Maine, USA.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330449443
• ISBN 13: 9780330449441
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224