Blameless in Abaddon

2014-07-31 Fiction

Author : James Morrow
Release : 2014-07-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 49X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Blameless in Abaddon written by James Morrow. This book was released on 2014-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace to both navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body - comatose yet far from inert - has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small. In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.

Blameless in Abaddon

1996 Fiction

Author : James Morrow
Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Blameless in Abaddon written by James Morrow. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After God falls from the sky, his two-mile long corpse is turned into a theme park in Florida. Subsequently, a judge whose wife dies in a car accident, decides to put God on trial at the international court in The Hague for allowing suffering.

Blameless in Abaddon

2014-03-04 Fiction

Author : James Morrow
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Blameless in Abaddon written by James Morrow. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: The People vs. God in “a funny, ferocious fantasy” from the two-time Nebula Award–winning author (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Hallelujah! God is not dead. He’s just been a deep-freeze coma in the Arctic. Strapped for cash, the Vatican has sold the body (a bargain at $1.3 billion!) to Baptists in Florida. Enterprising souls that they are, they’ve turned the Corpus Dei into a popular, two-mile long theme-park attraction at Orlando’s Celestial City USA—hooked up to the largest life-support system on earth. Then things get weird. Martin Candle, a justice of the peace who’s suffered a series of devastating setbacks, decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. Now, to accumulate evidence for the prosecution, Candle enters God’s brain on a steamer to find out what in the world the Almighty could possibly have been thinking all these years. What ensues in this sequel to James Morrow’s World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah is a “square off for the greatest moral debate of all time . . . [and it’s] not to be missed” (Booklist). “Surreal . . . dark and powerful.” —Publishers Weekly “A wildly imaginative novel . . . as barbed with high and low comedy as an Aristophanes play—and just as fundamentally serious.” —The Bloomsbury Review “Hilarious . . . [Morrow] demonstrates a sharp mind, [and] a sharper tongue . . . Salman Rushdie, eat your heart out.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune

The Godhead Trilogy

2014-06-03 Fiction

Author : James Morrow
Release : 2014-06-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Godhead Trilogy written by James Morrow. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, irreverent, and darkly funny trilogy from “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction” (The Washington Post). The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. In the World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah, God has died, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a “funny, ferocious fantasy” (Philadelphia Inquirer). God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park—until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. The Eternal Footman completes Morrow’s darkly comic trilogy about God’s untimely demise. With God’s skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of “death awareness” spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe’s stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.

Towing Jehovah

2014-03-04 Fiction

Author : James Morrow
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Towing Jehovah written by James Morrow. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.

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