Description: This book provides a detailed exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction.
Brief description: Andrew Tate is Professor in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics at Lancaster University, UK.
Review Quotes: "Identifying pertinant biblical tropes and subject matter and the lasting influence of more definitely theological writers such as Hawthorne, Buechner and Barth on today's practitioners, there is much assured close reading and pulling together of critical and historical threads . . . a compendious, conceptually sound study which asks good questions." --Times Literary Supplement