
Towing Jehovah
(The first book in the Godhead series)(1993)
A novel by
James Morrow
AwardsWorld Fantasy
Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)
A past winner of the World Fantasy Award, Morrow could easily claim another prize, for the year's most outlandish fictional premise, if there were prizes for such things. When God Himself drops dead, leaving His two-mile-long corpse floating face up in the Atlantic, former sea captain Anthony Van Horne is recruited by a grieving archangel to haul the Corpus Dei to an icy tomb at the North Pole. Eager to redeem himself for indirectly causing the century's worst oil spill, Van Horne resumes command of his newly repaired supertanker, the Carpco Valparaiso, and speeds north with God in tow. Already faced with protecting the corpse against marauding predators from the air and the sea, Van Horne confronts a series of setbacks as absurd as the notion of his divine cargo--setbacks such as a plot by a rescued feminist castaway to bomb and sink the patriarchal corpse for the good of womankind. Writing a brand of masterfully understated comic prose all his own, Morrow is a genius, and this book is one of the most deliciously irreverent satirical sprees in years.
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Hardback Editions
May 1994 : Hardback
| Title: Towing Jehovah Author(s): James Morrow ISBN: 0-15-190919-9 / 978-0-15-190919-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Harcourt Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book) Author(s): James Morrow ISBN: 0-15-600210-8 / 978-0-15-600210-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Harvest Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Towing Jehovah Author(s): James Morrow ISBN: 0-09-926301-7 / 978-0-09-926301-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
August 1993 : Paperback
| Title: TOWING JEHOVAH Author(s): JAMES MORROW ISBN: 0-09-926111-1 / 978-0-09-926111-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Legend paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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