Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
God is dead. Died and fell into the sea. That's what Raphael, a despondent angel with luminous white wings and a blinking halo, tells Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday. Soon, Van Horne is charged with captaining the supertanker Carpco Valparaiso (flying the colors of the Vatican) as it tows the two-mile-long corpse through the Atlantic toward the Arctic, in order to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition. Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, an estranged father, sabotage both natural and spiritual, a crew on (and sometimes past) the brink of mutiny, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. As he rings his wild, Vonnegutian changes on everything from male chauvinism to the Catholic Church, James Morrow once again proves himself to be one of the premiere satirists of our time while still managing to capture some of the beauty and sorrow in the world.Gary K. Wolfe is an Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and the author of Evaporating Genres: Studies on Weird Fiction and Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006, among other works. He has won multiple honors for his critical writing, including the British Science Fiction Society Award, the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award, the International Association for the Weird in the Arts' Outstanding Scholarship Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He co-hosts the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and writes frequent review essays for Locus magazine and the Chicago Tribune.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156002103 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156002108 |
| Title | Towing Jehovah |
| Author | James Morrow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning EMEA |
| Year published | 1995-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Nebula Awards 1994 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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