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36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

A Work of Fiction

by Rebecca Goldstein
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  • Jan 12, 2010, 416 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2011, 416 pages
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Richard Fauber

Varieties of Character
This is not a book about God at all but one of the roots of identity and discovering oneself. What I found most attractive was the variety of vivid characters, all of whom resemble people I have known but are their own individuals.
Goldstein writes a beautiful lucid prose that never tires. What some reviewers call flashbacks are integral to the protagonist's present, just as we act on the basis of carried images and beliefs. I found it beautifully done. The climactic debate is pitch perfect and incontestably realistic.
But Goldstein is too wise to think that life ends in triumph but instead goes on in a precarious balance of reason and feeling.
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