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. · God Is Dead PDF book by Ron Currie Jr. Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Published in July 1st the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, short stories books. Suggested PDF: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles pdf. Ron Currie is the author of the forethcoming The One-Eyed Man and the novels Everything Matters!, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and the short story collection God Is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Currie received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters/5(68).
Ron Currie, Jr. 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. God Is Dead Ron Currie, Jr. Viking. VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Hudson Street, New York, New York , U.S.A. â ¢ Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite , Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.). Ron Currie Jr. is a new author to the world of publishing, having had stories published in Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices, and Night Train; God is Dead is his first novel. It is a slim book, only pages long, with an unusual layout: the pages are taller than a regular hardcover, but narrower.
The electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March ) Ron Curriersquo;s gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life. God Is Dead. by. Ron Currie Jr. (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 3, ratings · reviews. 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. Ron Currie, Jr., clearly tuned into this logic, kills off God in the first chapter of his debut novel God Is Dead. This single act sets the premise for a book that is at once imaginatively twisted, darkly comic, and offensively thought-provoking. Without much of an introduction, the reader quickly learns at the outset that God has come to earth.
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