Ron Currie Jr.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Ron Currie, Jr. is an American author. His first book, God is Dead, was published to critical acclaim in 2007, earning Currie comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver. God is Dead received the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, as well as the Metcalf award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics praised the book’s daring mix of dark humor and earnest sentiment. Andrew Ervin, writing in The Believer, said “few authors would dare to depict the near rape and death of God amid a horrendous genocidal war, and fewer still could make it so bladder-threateningly hilarious.” Bookpage said “Each of the chapter-length stories seem to have emerged from a fever dream, sampling alternate futures that spring up like mutant weeds.” God is Dead was named a notable book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle.