

Towing Jehovah
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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