Book description
On his 50th birthday, Anthony Van Horne meets the despondent angel Raphael, who tells him that God is dead, his body in the sea; and that Van Horne must captain the supertanker that will now tow the two-mile-long divine corpse northwards through the Atlantic. By the author of "City of…
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I confess I'm more attracted to Morrow's themes than his actual writing, but still. Towing Jehovah is premised on God having died and his corpse needs to be towed to the Arctic for preservation. It's part of a trilogy (the second and third books are titled Blameless in Abaddon and The Eternal Footman); to be honest, I don't remember reading the other two, but I must have... Also worth mentioning is Morrow's Bible Stories for Adults. All irreverent. All funny in a dark way.
From Jass' list on that dare to make fun of religion and/or gods.
This is not a read for the religiously fragile. It’s the most subversive novel about the notion of the Judeo-Christian God that I’ve ever read. The premise is that God is dead and his massive corpse--two miles long!--has fallen into the ocean. A disgraced supertanker captain à la Captain Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez is hired by the archangel Raphael to tow his corpse to a massive hollowed-out glacier in the Arctic for entombment. But of course, the corpse is decomposing as they drag it along, and the crew suffers much existential angst as the journey unfolds. Hilarious and compelling…
From Mike's list on vikings, heresy, and general mayhem.
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