The Adventures Of God In His Search For The Black Girl
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sharp and irreverent work of satirical fiction, The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl presents a witty inversion of George Bernard Shaw's classic tale The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, casting the Almighty himself as the seeker rather than the sought. Brigid Brophy's characteristically incisive prose chronicles God's comic and philosophically charged journey as he wanders through a world populated by skeptics, intellectuals, and moral provocateurs. The collection, which also gathers a number of Brophy's essays, illustrates her fearless engagement with questions of religion, rationalism, feminism, and the absurdities of modern life. Written with the wit and precision of a committed freethinker, the work argues boldly against orthodoxy in both thought and society, cementing Brophy's reputation as one of the most intellectually daring voices in twentieth-century British letters.
Author: Brigid Brophy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Macmillan
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sharp and irreverent work of satirical fiction, The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl presents a witty inversion of George Bernard Shaw's classic tale The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, casting the Almighty himself as the seeker rather than the sought. Brigid Brophy's characteristically incisive prose chronicles God's comic and philosophically charged journey as he wanders through a world populated by skeptics, intellectuals, and moral provocateurs. The collection, which also gathers a number of Brophy's essays, illustrates her fearless engagement with questions of religion, rationalism, feminism, and the absurdities of modern life. Written with the wit and precision of a committed freethinker, the work argues boldly against orthodoxy in both thought and society, cementing Brophy's reputation as one of the most intellectually daring voices in twentieth-century British letters.