God Knows [RARE BOOKS]

Mr Heller is dancing at the top of his form again...original, sad, wildly funny and filled with roaring'

MORDECAI RICHLER NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving new novel is the story of David-yes, that David: warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, father of Solomon, slayer of Goliath, and psalmist nonpareil...as well as the David we've never known before now: David the cocky Jewish kid, David the fabulous lover, David the plagiarised poet, David the Jewish father, David the (one-time) crony of God...

At last, David is telling his own story, and he's holding nothing back-equally unembarrassed by his faults, his sins, his prowess, his incomparable glory...

God Knows is an ancient story, a modern story, a love story. It is a novel about growing up and growing old, about men and women, about fathers and sons, about man and God. It is a novel of emotional force, imaginative richness, and unbridled comic invention. It is quintessential Heller.

Joseph Heller is the outstandingly clever ideas-man of modern fiction... brilliantly inventive'

JONATHAN RABAN, SUNDAY TIMES

'The unforgiving genius still flares, and the book is worth the price of admission for the first few pages alone

MARTIN AMIS, THE OBSERVER