Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a belov...
Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a beloved parish priest, suddenly falls ill, Bunting returns to the Northern village of his childhood. Bunting's hopes that this visit might enable him to finally talk honestly with his parents and sort out his wayward life, are soon destroyed. Comic, edgy, lyrical, and indignant Bunting gives the term unreliable narrator a new twist with his irrepressible incapacity to tell the truth.
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被封底介绍吸引的,延毕人文博士寄情写作什么的。读完大为震惊,这个男的怎么好意思啊?!这种人和喜欢读海德格尔的农民工本身也没啥区别,一个暴论:资质平庸的人不该读人文社科博士并自我感觉良好。当然他幸运多了:出身富裕的美丽钢琴家妻子一直对他心软,好朋友给他找写讣告的赚钱活儿,宠爱他的富有叔叔,父母对他最大的担心不是学业而是信仰问题…不喜欢这种理所当然的态度,但毕竟有些句子我可以共情:get Ph.D. ... 被封底介绍吸引的,延毕人文博士寄情写作什么的。读完大为震惊,这个男的怎么好意思啊?!这种人和喜欢读海德格尔的农民工本身也没啥区别,一个暴论:资质平庸的人不该读人文社科博士并自我感觉良好。当然他幸运多了:出身富裕的美丽钢琴家妻子一直对他心软,好朋友给他找写讣告的赚钱活儿,宠爱他的富有叔叔,父母对他最大的担心不是学业而是信仰问题…不喜欢这种理所当然的态度,但毕竟有些句子我可以共情:get Ph.D. done! (展开)