God
The Biography
Published on 4. March 2002
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-7472-7016-4 (ISBN)
Description
What food does He like to eat? What are His family like? What did He do before creating the world? The answers to all these questions are in the Bible, or have been written about by those who know Him best - saints, popes and visionaries. In this account of God's life, Alexander Waugh, author of "TIME", tackles the biggest subject of them all. So many stories about God have been forgotten, or edged out of the familiar tales that we have lost out understanding of Him. Now we can once again find out more about who it is that we pray to.
Reviews / Votes
Peculiar and delightful...I loved it...Waugh's light-hearted approach is deceptive: some formidable research has gone into this book - Douglas Kennedy, Mail on SundayImmensely entertaining...it is funny and whimsical...but it is also clever and perceptive - A C Grayling, Literary Review
A deeply felt and genuine exploration... Waugh's biography is a search for love - and strangely, the god he leaves us with however impossible, remains attractive. - Jeanette Winterson, The Times
'...combines philosophical wrangling with the delightfully insolent tone of 1066 AND ALL THAT...while scholarly and illuminating this book is full of things that made me laugh...so enjoy! - Financial Times
Ten out of ten for the idea, the approach, the style, the writing - above all, the writing - and the supreme audacity of it all... Waugh writes like an impious angel; wittily and rivetingly - Michael Brown, Yorkshire Post
[Waugh's] sardonic, urbane tone is in the tradition of Gibbon or Hume...very funny. Pleasingly original...wherever you stand - or think you do - on the God question, this is a good read - Susan Elkin, The Independent
With mischievous wit and erudition...Waugh's tremendously funny book has, however, a serious purpose - S.B.Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
[An] erudite, scholarly, irreverent and impeccably researched biography of the supreme being... daringly brilliant a
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Illustrations
8pp colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 40 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 238 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7472-7016-4 (9780747270164)
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Person
Alexander Waugh is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh and son of columnist Auberon Waugh and novelist Teresa Waugh. Chief Opera Critic at both the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard, Alexander is also a publisher (Travelman Publishing), cartoonist and award-winning composer.