God and the Spoon Bender: (and Other Strange Creatures)
- ISBN-10
- 1712086731
- ISBN-13
- 9781712086735
- Pages
- 159
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-26
- Author
- Paul Byrne
Description
"No girl or boy band would ever pass through the gates of Heaven. Not on his watch. It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." Satirical farce set in an afterlife divided 'spiritually' along political lines and physically by barbed wire. A stressed, overworked God regrets creating man daily. Things aren't helped by his adviser the Spoon Bender (aka Guru) trying to steal his secrets. Or by the arrival of various odd characters: Boorish Bumble, the former PM, whose ambition is to become a god himself; a centenarian queen high on magic mushrooms; EU hater, Farrago, whose punishment for his earthly sins is to have his head turned 180 degrees - literally; and Stevie Hawkwing, the atheist scientist, who's convinced that he's in the middle of a weird dream caused by eating cheese on toast late at night! A manic madcap mix of The Odyssey, The Great Escape and Cinderella.
