Many a doctoral student might identify with Thomas Bunting, the central character of James Wood’s provocative novel, The Book Against God. Seven years into his philosophy Ph.D., Bunting is brought to a standstill by his failing marriage, his inability to tell the truth (he is separated from his pianist wife until she is satisfied that he has stopped lying), his unemployment, and his side project—an enormous atheistic journal known as the BAG, the Book Against God.

The Book Against God
James Wood
Jonathan Cape, London, 2003. 247pp.
Reviewed by Greg Clarke

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