num_pages: 376
description: Something was truly out to get him: GOD? SATAN? LOKI? Whoever - or whatever - obviously never intended to let Alex get back home to Kansas.It all began with that firewalking gig in Polynesia. After negotiating the bed of hot coals with only a small blister, he suddenly found the world changed around him. Instead of being Alexander Hergensheimer, minister of a fundamentalist church, he was now suppose to be Alec Graham, carryingunderworld money and in the middle of an affair with the charming stewardess, Margrethe - the only good thing about the whole business.Then there was the impossible iceberg that stgruck the ship and dumped Alex and Margrethe naked into the sea, to be recued by a Royal Mexican Coast Guard Plane. The next change took a double earthquake. And after that as change followed impossible change, things went from bad to worse. Alex found it impossible even to buy Margrethe the hot fudge sundae that he promised her.Whatever the change, however, Alex found one constant - all the signs pointed to Armageddon and the Day of Judgement. And Margrethe wasn't even a Christian - perversely, ahe believed in Odin and Ragnarok. Somehow, he had to bring her into a state of grace. Without her, Heaven would be no paradise to him.Somewhere he felt, there had to be an answer to his question and to the questoin of why he was being persecuted. And, of course, there was.But it was truly a Hell of an answer.
language: English
title: Job: A Comedy of Justice
titlecomplete: Job: A Comedy of Justice
characters: Alec Graham
genres: Fiction, Humor, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Religion, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 17871
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books