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John Niven - The Second Coming (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Kill Your Friends.
God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week’s fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by.
When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and ‘fucking Christians everywhere’.
There’s only one thing for it. They’re sending the kid back.
JC, reborn, is a struggling musician in New York City, trying to teach the one true commandment: Be Nice!
His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star. But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who’s more than a match for the Son of God . . . Steven Stelfox.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Humorous Fiction
- Published : 2011 (This Edition 2014 - Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780099592136
- SKU : B003358
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Believe me, this book is going to cause one almighty stink! Deeply, intelligently satirical. In lesser hands it could easily have become a crass rant. Yet Niven provides hilarious, perceptive entertainment. Only the truly ignorant will take offence. But then they usually do." - Henry Sutton, The Mirror, Book of the Week.
"An entertaining novel . . . In the midst of it all, there is compassion, and insight into the way the impulse for truth can lead to dark acts indeed. Bloody funny." - Independent on Sunday.
"Consistently entertaining. Behind all the curses and the gags, orthodoxy reigns in Niven's MTV-style gospel as Jesus battles oppression, hypocrisy and the satanic forces of Simon Cowell - sorry, Steven Stelfox . . . Consistently funny and smart. Trendy vicars might even consider distributing it after their Easter sermons." - Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
"John Niven tore the music industry apart with his coruscating debut novel and now he's back again, along with Kill Your Friends obscene anti-hero Steven Stelfox, to get stuck into religion and celebrity culture . . . the story rattles along at a breakneck speed, delivering wonderful abuse at all and sundry." - The Big Issue.
"A humorous, quirky take on what Jesus would do, think and be if he was on Earth today." - Bookbag.
The Author
John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of ten novels and has written for a wide range of publications, including a weekly column for the Scottish Sunday Mail. He lives in Buckinghamshire.