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The Reluctant God de James Lawson

The Reluctant God

Autor James Lawson
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"One afternoon in February, Michael Movius, a thirty-six year old neurotic who had suffered a mild nervous breakdown and was recuperating at a small hospital in upstate New York, transported Edward Ortega, an unloved attendant at the hospital, from the physical world to an unused recess of his mind."

Thus begins a strange and unusual book in a genre all its own, the story of an ordinary man who must assume the mantle of a god. To accommodate the people he brings into his mind from the real world, he must create a world within his imagination, make the sun rise and set, make rain nourish the land, create an environment that can feed and house the inhabitants of his mind, even lay down laws of conduct and morality.

But events in the real world constantly impinge on the world within. And the people in Movius' mind, a microcosm of a normal community, influence the world without. Movius switches back and forth between man and god, incompetence and omnipotence, pettiness and profundity.

Despite its epic scope and philosophical underpinnings, exploring the farthest reaches of the imagination, "The Reluctant God" is an entertaining and eminently readable story of real people trying to cope with an unreal world.

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ISBN-13: 9781440146213
ISBN-10: 1440146217
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: iUniverse

Notă biografică

James Lawson was born in 1934 in Castlemaine, an old gold mining town in the State of Victoria, Australia. He graduated in medicine at the University of Melbourne and went on to have a career as a director of hospital and medical services in several Australian states. He has been professor of public health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia since 1987. He is the author of ten books and over 200 scientific publications. He was awarded the Citation of the International Red Cross and the United Nations for meritorious service in caring for the sick of the Congo, Africa, during the troubled period 1960-1961. For many years he has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation. He became a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003 in recognition of his contributions to public health. He married Margaret Ralton in 1964 and together they have two sons and six daughters and 25 grandchildren.