Gods Behaving Badly
$37.00
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2008
Summary
Funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all its potential.
Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the 21st century—nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099513025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099513021 |
| Author: | Marie Phillips |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Very, very funny and delightfully original as well as acutely clever in a makes-you-think-about-contemporary-morality-without-realising-it kind of way… this novel will not only make you laugh and give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling, it will also provide a good basic grounding in Greek mythology * Independent *What makes the novel stand out - and it really does stand out - is its originality and lightness of touch * Daily Telegraph *The Olympians are immortal - this we all know. But it has taken Marie Phillips’ wit to put them back where they belong - into a decrepit 21st-century London bedsit. It is all very, very funny…this book charms and provokes in a paragraph. I am writing this in Delphi, dangling my feet in Apollo’s sacred spring - the water is said to bring the muse. Phillips clearly has a bottle of it on her desk – Bettany Hughes * The Times *An absolutely delightful novel * Scotland on Sunday *Ingeniously imagined and satisfyingly lusty * Guardian *Funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all it’s potential * Observer *
About The Author
Marie Phillips
Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. She studied anthropology and documentary making, and worked as a TV researcher for several years. More recently she has worked as an independent bookseller whilst writing Gods Behaving Badly.
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