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Good to Be God

English · Paperback

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Zusatztext The best thinking person's entertainer since Iris Murdoch. one of his funniest books to date. - Time Out, A born storyteller. Informationen zum Autor Tibor Fischer Klappentext Using a friend's credit card and identity, Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous failure might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle: dying and coming back to life... Zusammenfassung Using a friend's credit card and identity, Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous failure might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle: dying and coming back to life....

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Fischer is one of the funniest writers in the business. The Daily Telegraph

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Authors Tibor Fischer
Publisher Alma Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 06.04.2009
 
EAN 9781846880841
ISBN 978-1-84688-084-1
No. of pages 270
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, religion; satire

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