Towing Jehovah
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
"delightfully satirical, exciting, and brilliantly multi-layered" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
"...thought provoking and mind bogglingly crazy. A great read!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars
God is dead.
The Angel Raphael visits tanker captain Anthony Van Horne, and now he must tow God's corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, both natural and spiritual sabotage, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas.
Towing Jehovah is a satirical exploration of humankind's relationship with God, and an astute observation of Western culutre.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne doesn't feel very well himself. Van Horne--whose captaincy of a mammoth oil tanker during an Exxon Valdez -type spill has left him unemployed, estranged from his family and suffering nightmares--is hired by the Vatican to pilot his former vessel as it tows the Supreme Being (found dead of unknown causes) to a tomb in the Arctic that His angels have built for Him. Van Horne's task would be difficult enough without the well-intentioned efforts of devout atheist Cassie Fowler and her compatriots from the Central Park West Enlightenment League, whose reactions to God's corporeality belie their organization's quaint name. Morrow (winner of a World Fantasy Award for his novel Only Begotten Daughter ) describes a captivating voyage. As complication builds upon complication--including a shipwreck, an island that appears to be the abode of pagan gods, a mutiny, acrimonious dealings with Van Horne's father and contretemps from both the reappraising Vatican and the WW II Reenactment Society--Van Horne's journal reads like that of a modern-day Odysseus. There's an unnecessary death that deprives the narrative of the perspective of one of its potentially most interesting characters, but this clever novel still stands as a wry, boisterous celebration.
