God Is DeadPenguin, 05/07/2007 - 192 من الصفحات The electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) Ron Currie’s gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it? Effortlessly combining outlandish humor with big questions about mortality, ethics, and human weakness, Ron Currie, Jr., holds a funhouse mirror to our present-day world. God has inhabited the mortal body of a young Dinka woman in the Sudan. When she is killed in the Darfur desert, he dies along with her, and word of his death soon begins to spread. Faced with the hard proof that there is no supreme being in charge, the world is irrevocably transformed, yet remains oddly recognizable. |
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... turned off the telephone . “ Tell me some- thing , " he said to the official . " Why do I always end up relaying messages through the lowliest goddamn sub - assistant - deputy aides in the White House ? Why , in almost four years , have ...
... turned off the telephone . “ Tell me some- thing , " he said to the official . " Why do I always end up relaying messages through the lowliest goddamn sub - assistant - deputy aides in the White House ? Why , in almost four years , have ...
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... turned and motioned to his colleagues , who stepped aside . The woman lifted her cloth sack from where it had fallen in the dirt , straightened her dress , and approached the Suburban . Powell smiled . " What can I do for you , sugar ...
... turned and motioned to his colleagues , who stepped aside . The woman lifted her cloth sack from where it had fallen in the dirt , straightened her dress , and approached the Suburban . Powell smiled . " What can I do for you , sugar ...
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... turned to Ismail , who finally managed the smile of be- nevolence and cooperation he'd been after by envisioning Pow- ell's head atop a pike . " To that end , in a show of good faith , Mr. Ismail has agreed to assist in locating Thomas ...
... turned to Ismail , who finally managed the smile of be- nevolence and cooperation he'd been after by envisioning Pow- ell's head atop a pike . " To that end , in a show of good faith , Mr. Ismail has agreed to assist in locating Thomas ...
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... turned and strode out of the tent . The official turned to Powell as the Secret Service agents be- gan herding reporters out into the arid night . “ Due respect , sir , " he said , " are you insane ? We're scheduled to be in Indonesia ...
... turned and strode out of the tent . The official turned to Powell as the Secret Service agents be- gan herding reporters out into the arid night . “ Due respect , sir , " he said , " are you insane ? We're scheduled to be in Indonesia ...
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... turning to the hotel in El Fasher . Outside , beyond the ring of Secret Service agents standing guard , they could hear the quiet conversations of Dinka families , the pop and hiss of campfires , the sigh of a steady plains wind ...
... turning to the hotel in El Fasher . Outside , beyond the ring of Secret Service agents standing guard , they could hear the quiet conversations of Dinka families , the pop and hiss of campfires , the sigh of a steady plains wind ...
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The Bridge | |
Indian Summer | |
False Idols | |
Grace | |
Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack Which Fed on Gods Corpse | |
The Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit | |
My Brother the Murderer | |
157 Retreat | |
Acknowledgments | |
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