While his marriage breaks up and his career as a professor gets increasingly iffier, Thomas Bunting is supposedly working on his dissertation, but what he's really doing is writing a book about atheism called THE BOOK AGAINST GOD (or BAG). When he returns to the tiny village where he grew up to see his ailing father--a Christian priest--and maybe reconcile with him, Thomas's propensity to shade the truth complicates matters and makes things even worse. This comic novel is by the well-known literary critic James Wood. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.