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Imprisoned by the Philistines, blind and chained, his hair shorn and his strength sapped, Samson's story is one of great feats of violence and even greater hubris. He believes that he has been sent by God to deliver his people from the heathens, and so strong is his conviction in his divine mission that his behaviour verges on the psychopathic. His delight in killing for God knows no bounds, and his Herculean speed and strength seems unstoppable, but then there's Dalila... In Samson's egomaniacal bloodlust Maine holds the mirror up to the actions of those running our world now, and in the suicidal bringing down of the twin pillars of the temple presages the defining event of the twenty-first century.
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Written with a brilliant disregard for the reputations of both Samson and God, Maine delivers a blistering and provocative portrait of someone more akin to God's own gangster than God's gift to mankind . . . Suffused with sex and violence, as well as many of the trapping of the modern thriller, this is Bible-bothering at its best. * * Time Out * * In retelling the life of Samson as every Sunday school's favourite mass murderer, he could not have made a more appropriate choice for our age . . .By fleshing out the story on its own terms, he conveys the amplitude of its moral horror. * * Guardian * *
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David Maine was born in 1963 and grew up in Farmington, Connecticut. He attended Oberlin College and the University of Arizona, and worked in the mental health systems of Massachusetts and Arizona. He is married to novelist Uzma Aslam Khan, and since 1998 has lived in Lahore, Pakistan. Read the latest from David on his blog, the Party Never Stops.
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1841958859
- ISBN 13 9781841958859
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