God
Subtitle: stories
By: edited by C. Michael Curtis.
Contributors: Curtis, C. Michael.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Religious fiction, American.; English fiction -- Irish authors.; Religious fiction, English.; Belief and doubt -- Fiction.; Spiritual life -- Fiction.; Faith -- Fiction.; God -- Fiction.
Description: Gathered by an editor of The Atlantic Monthly, these twenty-five short stories by eminent writers of varying persuasion, including Tobias Wolff, Louise Erdrich, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike, deal with the question of faith - both its presence and its absence.

The stories range from the comic to the passionate, from the skeptical to the mystical. Some stories make their way into the perplexities of belief, some explore the hazy perimeter of unconditional love and forgiveness, and others examine the paradoxes of discipleship. Each of these stories engages issues of deep and universal appeal. God: Stories brings the exploration of spirit to life and lofty questions within our reach.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; title: Exodus
pagenum: 1; title: Design
pagenum: 8; title: A New Life
pagenum: 22; title: A Father's Story
pagenum: 35; title: Satan: Hijacker of a Planet
pagenum: 55; title: Redemption
pagenum: 65; title: The Knife
pagenum: 78; title: God's Typhoon
pagenum: 83; title: The Question of Rain
pagenum: 95; title: Grace
pagenum: 108; title: Idiots First
pagenum: 128; title: The Retreat
pagenum: 137; title: Pictures of the Ice
pagenum: 151; title: Parker's Back
pagenum: 167; title: Rosa
pagenum: 186; title: The Pure in Heart
pagenum: 222; title: The Rabbi in the Attic
pagenum: 236; title: Roof Work
pagenum: 267; title: Zeal
pagenum: 281; title: Defender of the Faith
pagenum: 294; title: A Christian Education
pagenum: 322; title: Autumn Sunshine
pagenum: 327; title: Made in Heaven
pagenum: 344; title: A Still Moment
pagenum: 357; title: The Missing Person
pagenum: 369; title: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 395