Summary
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 TelegraphThomas Bunting, charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins- instead of completing his philosophy PhD, he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099453574 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099453576 |
| Author: | James Wood |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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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 *The novel simply thrums with an intellectual passion rarely seen in fiction these days * Spectator *Spry and confident-by turns gravely comic and hilariously tragic – Sunday Herald
About The Author
James Wood
James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works, which has been translated into thirteen languages.
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