Copyright © 2003 by James Wood

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Designed by Barbara Grzeslo

 

 

eISBN 9781429932127

First eBook Edition : May 2011

 

 

First edition, 2003

A chapter of this book previously appeared in The London Review of books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wood, James, 1965–

The book against God /James Wood.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Truthfulness and falsehood—Fiction. 2. Children of clergy—Fiction. 3. Graduate students—Fiction. 4. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 5. Authorship—Fiction. 6. Young men—Fiction. 7. Atheists—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6123.0527 B66 2003

823’.92-dc21

2002042600