In this ostensible autobiography, the (really rather endearing)
title figure confesses the loneliness that stimulated Him to create
beings in His own image, and describes His adventures throughout
history disguised in various forms, interacting and debating with
famous figures who seem to promise, but fail to offer, worthy
companionship. Ferrucci's revisionist view of the fathering of
Christ may drive some of the fundamentalists nuts, but that's their
problem. This exceedingly amusing novel, first published to great
acclaim in Italy in 1986, is a continuous provocation and delight;
there isn't a dull page in it. (Kirkus Reviews)
At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender,
troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God
is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth,
plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His
every thought and mood serve to populate the planet, with
consequences that run away from him--sometimes delightfully,
sometimes unfortunately. When a new arrival emerges from the apes,
God believes he has finally found the companion he needs to help
him make sense of his unruly creation. Yet, as the centuries pass,
God feels more and more out of place in the world he has created;
by the close of his memoir, he is packing his bags. Highly praised
and widely reviewed, The Life of God is a playful, wondrous, and
irresistible book, recounting thousands of years of religious and
philosophical thought. "A supreme but imperfect entity, the
protagonist of this religiously enlightened and orthodoxically
heretical novel is possessed by a raving love for his skewed,
unbalanced world...Blessed are the readers, for this tale of God's
long insomnia will keep them happily awake...Extraordinary."
--Umberto Eco "The Life of God is, in truth, the synthesis of a
charming writer's ...expression of his boundless hopes for, and
poignant disappointments in, his own human kind." --Jack Miles, New
York Times Book Review "Rather endearing...This exceedingly amusing
novel ...is a continuous provocation and delight; there isn't a
dull page in it." --Kirkus Reviews "A smart and charming knitting
of secular and ecclesiastic views of the world...The character of
God is likable--sweet, utterly human...The prose is delightful
...the writing is consistently witty and intelligent and
periodically hilarious." --Allison Stark Draper, Boston Review
"'God's only excuse is that he does not exist,' wrote Stendhal, but
now Franco Ferrucci has provided the Supreme Being with another
sort of alibi." --James Morrow, Washington Post Book World
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