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And God Said, Billy! - A Novel (Paperback)
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And God Said, Billy! - A Novel (Paperback)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy For God... "And
God Said 'Billy ' is laugh-out loud funny from page one. It's
downright insightful throughout and takes readers deep into the
shallow psyche of a sincere Charismatic-Evangelical whose God fails
him. That failure turns out, through a hilarious series of
tragic-comic reversals, to be - let's just say something close to
miraculous. I love this novel." -- Brian D. McLaren,
author/speaker/blogger. "Honest, humorous and sure to rankle those
who believe that being human means being certain." -- Kevin Miller
director of "Hellbound?" the movie. "When the family business is
religion, it is especially perilous. To millions of evangelical
Christians, the Schaeffer name is royal, and Frank Schaeffer is the
reluctant, wayward, traitorous prince. His crime... is turning his
back on Christian conservatives." The New York Times. "Frank
Schaeffer exposes the insanity and the corruption of what has
become a powerful and frightening force in American politics... As
someone who has made redemption his work, he has, in fact, shown
amazing grace." -- Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winner and author of
A Thousand Acres. And God Said, "Billy " is a darkly comic
coming-of-age story written by the master story teller that House
of Sand and Fog author Andre Dubus III hailed as the funniest
American writer since Mark Twain. The story is set in the 1980s and
is about Billy, a young fundamentalist Christian who feels called
to go to Hollywood to make "God's movie." But everything goes off
the rails when he accepts a job to direct a soft-porn
slasher/exploitation film in apartheid-era South Africa. He makes
this "It's a deal not a movie" picture even though he has to bust
the US entertainment industry's anti-apartheid sanctions in hopes
his "worldly movie" will be "used by God" as a "stepping stone" to
making his own divinely sanctioned "End Times" picture. Billy loses
his fundamentalist faith, his film career, his family and mo
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Imprint: |
Outskirts Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2013 |
First published: |
September 2013 |
Authors: |
Frank Schaeffer
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
326 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4787-0001-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4787-0001-7 |
Barcode: |
9781478700012 |
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