God: A Biography
#425 of 3,809 books · #13 in General
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1996).
This text addresses the Bible's anomalous position between history and fiction, arguing that God is the greatest literary character of all time. The author advises us to read the Bible as we would any other book, and discusses why God is the most enduring and compelling character in all literature.
- ISBN-13
- 9780684816845
- Genre
- Topics
- Biblical literatureReligionGod as literary character
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(1996)
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