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'Mr Heller is dancing at the top of his form again original, sad, wildly funny and filled with roaring'
MORDECAI RICHLER NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving
new novel is the story of David-yes, that David: warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, father of Solomon, slayer
of Goliath, and psalmist nonpareil as well as the David we've never known before now: David the cocky Jewish kid, David the fabulous lover, David the plagiarised poet, David the Jewish father, David the (one-time) crony of God
At last, David is telling his own story, and he's holding nothing back-equally unembarrassed by his faults, his sins, his prowess, his incomparable glory
God Knows is an ancient story, a modern story, a love story It is a novel about growing up and growing old, about men and women, about fathers and sons, about man and God. It is a novel of emotional force, imaginative richness, and unbridled comic invention. It is...
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Fülszöveg
'Mr Heller is dancing at the top of his form again original, sad, wildly funny and filled with roaring'
MORDECAI RICHLER NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving
new novel is the story of David-yes, that David: warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, father of Solomon, slayer
of Goliath, and psalmist nonpareil as well as the David we've never known before now: David the cocky Jewish kid, David the fabulous lover, David the plagiarised poet, David the Jewish father, David the (one-time) crony of God
At last, David is telling his own story, and he's holding nothing back-equally unembarrassed by his faults, his sins, his prowess, his incomparable glory
God Knows is an ancient story, a modern story, a love story It is a novel about growing up and growing old, about men and women, about fathers and sons, about man and God. It is a novel of emotional force, imaginative richness, and unbridled comic invention. It is quintessential Heller.
'Joseph Heller is the outstandingly clever ideas-man of modern fiction brilliantly inventive^ JONATHAN RABAN,SUNDAYTIMES 'The unforgiving genius still flares, and the book is worth the price of admission for the first few pages alonei MARTIN AMIS, THE OBSERVER
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