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Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork—a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a beloved parish priest, suddenly falls ill, Bunting returns to the Northern village of his childhood. Bunting's hopes that this visit might enable him to finally talk honestly with his parents and sort out his wayward life, are soon destroyed.
Comic, edgy, lyrical, and indignant Bunting gives the term unreliable narrator a new twist with his irrepressible incapacity to tell the truth.
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Lou Austin
reviewed Book Against God on February 16, 2014
Book Against God
Tom, the narrator is the 30 year old intellectual son of a vicar, a professional student and also a militant atheist. His long drawn out PHD in philosophy has been delayed by a secret writing project leading up to a spiritual crisis which he chronicles in a deadpan, unintentionally comic way. His project is a debate about the existence and nature of God and the insoluble 'problem of evil'
(i.e. if God is omnipotent and benevolent, how can he allow evil to exist in the world?)
This is a thought provoking and witty approach to difficult concepts, full of literary and philosophical allusions, but enlivened by Tom's over-dramatic style, rendering his existential angst too comic to be tragic.
[This was Woods first novel and as gamekeeper turned poacher, he was given a rough reception by fellow reviewers due to his own reputation as the Guardian's unforgiving literary critic in the late 80's]
Reviewed for Whichbook.net
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