God’s Grace (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Apocalyptic
- Time of Work: The future
- Setting: A tropical island
- Principal Characters: Calvin Cohn, God, Buz, George, Mary Madelyn, Esau, Melchior, Luke, Saul of Tarsus
- Genres: Long fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Nature, God, Jews or Jewish life, Human behavior, Animals, Apostles
- Locales: Islands
The Novel
God’s Grace begins directly after all living beings have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. One person, Calvin Cohn, a Jewish paleontologist, has survived because he was deep undersea in a submersible craft. Coming to the surface, he realizes that a giant flood has covered the earth. God speaks to Cohn, telling him that he survived because of a “minuscule error” on God’s part. Calvin too will be destroyed, God tells him, but not yet.
Returning to his mother ship, the Rebekah Q, Cohn discovers a young chimpanzee. Exploring the ship...
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