Towing Jehovah
The discovery of God's corpse in the mid-Atlantic poses a menace to navigation and to faith. Charged with captaining a supertanker as it tows the two-mile long corpse northward to the Arctic so that it can be preserved, Anthony Van Horne must contend with sabotage (both natural and spiritual) and...
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The discovery of God's corpse in the mid-Atlantic poses a menace to navigation and to faith. Charged with captaining a supertanker as it tows the two-mile long corpse northward to the Arctic so that it can be preserved, Anthony Van Horne must contend with sabotage (both natural and spiritual) and mutiny along the way. An allegorical tale certain to entertain and provoke.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151909193 (0151909199)
Publish date: May 1st 1994
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Pages no: 371
Edition language: English
Series: Godhead (#1)
This is a hard one to decide what to think about it. It's a Vonnegut-esque farce: the giant corpse of God is found floating in the mid-Atlantic. Hijinks ensue. The author seems to have done his homework, leading discussions on Kant, theodicy, and similar while a WWII re-enactment society, Atlantis, ...
PJ's got me keen for a reread, because I remember almost nothing. Unlike others of Morrow's novels, I never really felt like I got this one. It's odd, but I'm not sure what Morrow's point was.
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