{"product_id":"9781429932127","title":"The Book Against God: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Passionate, Profoundly Funny First Novel from \"the Best Literary Critic of His Generation\" (Adam Begley, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph.D. (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled \"The Book Against God.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when his father suddenly falls ill, Thomas returns to the tiny village in the north of England where he grew up and where his father still works as a parish priest. There, Thomas hopes, he may finally be able to communicate honestly with his father, a brilliant and formidable Christian example, and sort out his own wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar as well as an atheist, and he finds, instead, that once at home he soon reverts to the evasive patterns of his childhood years—with disastrous results.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of a husband and wife, a father and son, faith and disbelief, and a hero who couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it, \u003ci\u003eThe Book Against God\u003c\/i\u003e is at once hilarious and poignant; it introduces an original comic voice—edgy, elegiac, lyrical, and indignant—and, in the irrepressible Thomas Bunting, one of the strangest philosophers in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154177310960,"sku":"9781429932127","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429932127_p0.jpg?v=1769902030","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429932127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}