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Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow (1996, Hardcover) 
Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow (1996, Hardcover)

 
Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow (1996, Hardcover)

Author: James Morrow
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0151886563
ISBN-13: 9780151886562
Product ID: EPID1995564
Description: In this sequel to the award-winning "Towing Jehovah", the two-mile long body of God has become the main attraction at a theme park. But some want the figure transported to The International Court of Justice at the Hague, where it will be...
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Synopsis
In this sequel to the award-winning "Towing Jehovah", the two-mile long body of God has become the main attraction at a theme park. But some want the figure transported to The International Court of Justice at the Hague, where it will be forced to account for the injustices and tragedies of history. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 1996.

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Publication Date:1996-08-01

Size
Length:404 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:25.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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In Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace both to navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body - comatose yet far from inert - has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small. In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.

Industry Reviews
"...His [Morrow's] ability to reconcile absurdist elements with grimmer ones maintains an unusual narrative tension."
Washington Post Book World - Gregory Feeley (09/01/1996)

"'Blameless in Abaddon' is a sequel that can be read with pleasure quite apart from its predecessor..."
New York Times Book Review - Gerald Jonas (09/15/1996)

"This is a wildly imaginative novel, never standing in place for long, dancing when you might better expect a march, hopscotching over all expectations, as barbed with high and low comedy as any Aristophanes play--and just as fundamentally serious."
Bloomsbury Review - James Sallis

"A clever, thought-provoking, and well-informed yarn that boldly and wittily tackles the imposing issues raised in 'Towing Jehovah'; still it's hard to absorb, and well, heavy."
Raymont

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