Towing Jehovah

Name: Towing Jehovah
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: James Morrow
ISBN: 9781974989508

Author: James Morrow

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 03/09/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About James Morrow

James Morrow is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Towing Jehovah, the Nebula Award-winning novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima, and the New York Times Notable Book Blameless in Abaddon. His novels include The Last Witchfinder, hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic," and The Philosopher's Apprentice, which received rave reviews from multiple outlets, including the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.

Morrow is a master of the satiric and the surreal who has enjoyed comparison with Twain, Vonnegut, and Updike. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on June 21, 2019

God is dead, and something has got to be done about His corpse! This book drops the bombshell of this very unique premise, and then it's off to the races. It's hard to miss the metaphor. In fact, the whole novel is in-your-face-allegorical from the get-go, featuring a cast of superstitious sailors l......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 18, 2019

I can't remember when I last read a book as delightfully satirical, exciting, and brilliantly multi-layered as this. It's very firmly couched in bloody-minded literalism, but don't let that fool you. This is one SMART COOKIE. Yes, God is a main character. But unlike so many other humorists, this ver......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 28, 2021

This book is not bad - plotwise, it did everything right! - but it is such a waste of a good idea. I went into it blindly because I fell in love with the premise: God dies and His body falls into the sea. Knowing nothing more than that, my mind went wild considering the myriad implications this would......more

Goodreads review by Jack on March 01, 2008

God is dead, and his two-mile long corpse is floating in the Atlantic, right around the equator. Anthony van Horne, a disgraced oil tanker captain is tapped by the Vatican to haul God's body up to the North Pole, where the grieving angels have prepared a cave for his internment and preservation. Van......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 28, 2011

Never judge a book by its cover, right? Does going on the title count? We all do that, of course, and it was the title that first grabbed me, then the description made it a must read. Morrow is a writer that I was only vaguely aware of, but the reviews appealed to me immediately. So when the Atheist......more