
Good to Be God
Tibor Fischer(Author)
Alma Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 6. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-84688-084-1 (ISBN)
Description
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, 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 almighty 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...
Reviews / Votes
The best thinking person's entertainer since Iris Murdoch... one of his funniest books to date. - Time Out, A born storyteller. * Sunday Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Surrey
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84688-084-1 (9781846880841)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Person
Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London, he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won a Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Nnovelists. Subsequent works include The Thought Gang, The Collector Collector, Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid and Voyage to the End of the Room.