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God Is Dead
by Ron Currie Jr

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ISBN13: 9780670038671
ISBN10: 0670038679
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From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God takes human form and dies.

When God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world both bizarrely new yet eerily familiar. In Ron Currie's provocative, wise, and emotionally resonant novel we meet God himself; the Dinka woman whose mortality He must suffer when He inhabits her body; people all over the world coping with the devastating news of God's demise; a group of young men who, fearing the end of the world, take fate into their own hands; mental patients who insist that a god still exists; armies taking up the eternal war between fate and free will; and parents who, in the absence of a deity and the "lack of anything to do on Sundays," worship their children. On the surface, this is a world utterly transformed — yet certain things remain unchanged: protective parents clash with willful, idealistic teenagers; idols are exalted; small-town rumor mills run unabated; and children often don't realize how to forgive their parents until it's too late.

In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk's blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating reading experience. Offbeat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.

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"A bleak dystopian future is tempered with moments of possibility in story writer Currie's debut novel, in which a sick and wounded Dinka woman arrives at a refugee camp in Darfur, searching for her lost brother. The woman is God, come to Earth in human form to make apologies to the Sudanese, over whose fate He is, 'due to an implacable polytheistic bureaucracy, completely powerless.' When God is gunned down, news of His death spreads quickly around the globe and provides the jumping-off point for the subsequent short story — like chapters that reveal what happens in a post-God world: suicide rates skyrocket (especially among clergy members), riots and mass looting erupt and the pack of feral dogs that feasted on God's corpse begin 'speaking a mishmash of Greek and Hebrew' and inspiring worship among Africans. (Meanwhile, in America, the masses, seeking a deity to fill the void, begin worshipping children.) Looking at humanity through a warped lens allows the various narrators unusual insight; while sometimes overwrought, these observations are often striking, as when an enlightened dog describes the strange new experience of emotion. This novel-in-stories is unsettling and strange, but still easily accessible; despite the ways in which his world has changed, Currie's altered humanity has one foot in ours. (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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"Currie's strength rests in his ability to focus humanity's conundrums on the smallest physical particles." Los Angeles Times

Review:

"[A] brilliant novel, a taut tale that captures the importance of faith in our lives." St. Petersburg Times
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About the Author

Ron Currie, Jr.'s prizewinning fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices, and Night Train. He has been shortlisted for the Fish International Short Story Award and Swink magazine's Emerging Writer Award.
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csppdy2008, August 1, 2007 (view all comments by csppdy2008)
its very good.worth reading several times...
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JISimpson, July 26, 2007 (view all comments by JISimpson)
I've been enjoying Ron's award-winning fiction for a few years now. He's a gifted, highly imaginative and very generous writer, and with this critically acclaimed and powerful debut, we see the emergence of a major new talent.

In the words of National Book Critics Circle president John Freeman, prepared to be "blind-sided by the iron skillet of Currie's imagination." This book is enjoyably devastating on so many levels, and will haunt you long after you've finished it.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780670038671
Author:
Currie Jr, Ron
Publisher:
Viking Books
Author:
Currie, Ron, Jr.
Author:
Currie
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
God
Subject:
Darfur (Sudan)
Publication Date:
July 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
182
Dimensions:
966x584x78 79
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