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And God Said, Billy!

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And God Said, Billy!

Yazan: Frank Schaeffer
Seslendiren: Frank Schaeffer
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And God Said 'Billy!' is a darkly comic coming-of-age story written by the master story teller that House of Sand and Fog author Andre Dubus III hailed as the funniest American writer since Mark Twain. The story is set in the 1980s and is about Billy, a young fundamentalist Christian who feels called to go to Hollywood to make "God's movie." But everything goes off the rails when he accepts a job to direct a soft-porn slasher/exploitation film in apartheid-era South Africa. He makes this "It's a deal not a movie" picture even though he has to bust the US entertainment industry's anti-apartheid sanctions in hopes his "worldly movie" will be "used by God" as a "stepping stone" to making his own divinely sanctioned "End Times" picture. Billy loses his fundamentalist faith, his film career, his family and more.

©2013 Frank Schaeffer (P)2014 Frank Schaeffer Kurgu Literature & Fiction Afrika Ortadoğu
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"When the family business is religion, it is especially perilous. To millions of evangelical Christians, the Schaeffer name is royal, and Frank Schaeffer is the reluctant, wayward, traitorous prince. His crime... is turning his back on Christian conservatives." ( The New York Times)
"Frank Schaeffer exposes the insanity and the corruption of what has become a powerful and frightening force in American politics... As someone who has made redemption his work, he has, in fact, shown amazing grace." (Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Thousand Acres)
"Schaeffer's gifts as a novelist are more than comic his writing has a deeper river flowing through it, one that is sensual and full of true grace." (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog)
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I loved his non-fiction. I also enjoyed Zermatt, but this was really awful. Seemed to lacking in any real substance. Seemed like Schaeffer pulled out every single cliché in this one. I don't mind poking fun at Evangicals, but I also like a real story.This story was as bad as his failed Hollywood movies. Just as flat. Just as grotesque. Seemingly shocking, just for the sake of being shocking. Like the porn movies the main character was forced to direct in order to get God's will done.

My advice to Frank is to get his other novels up on audible.

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