![]() ![]() ![]() But for all his jauntiness, Lucifer must unexpectedly wrestle with Gunn's conscience, including Gunn's memories of Penelope, his alternately loathed and longed-for ex. Lucifer options his life story-from his starring role with Adam and Eve to his struggles with an autocratic God-to a film producer and torments Declan's lover, Viola, with the promise of a juicy part in the upcoming movie. Lucifer narrates his romps through escort service dates, cocaine-laced nights and, mostly, the thrills of the wondrous human sensorium. The vacant body belongs to Declan Gunn, a writer on the brink of suicide. The grim alternative for Lucifer is to subsist in eternal nothingness. God gives his evil subaltern a month in a human body, with an option to own, thus permanently casting off his pain-racked cosmological being. In Paradise Lost, Milton set out to "justifie the wayes of God to men." In this novel, British author Duncan ( Hope Love Remains) attempts to justify the ways of Satan to the hip. ![]()
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