Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer reads from Good to be God.

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The bestselling author of UNDER THE FROG will be talking about and signing his new novel.

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Tibor Fischer reads from Good to be God.

Tibor Fischer Book Launch: Good to be God. About the book: Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission - to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life…

Tibor Fischer (born November 15, 1959 in Stockport, England) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers. Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, having fled Hungary in 1956. The bloody 1956 revolution, and his father's background, informed Fischer's debut novel Under the Frog, a Rabelaisian yarn about a Hungarian basketball player surviving Communism. The title is derived from a Hungarian saying, that the worst possible place to be is under a frog's arse down a coal mine. In 1992, Under the Frog won a Betty Trask Prize for literature, and was short-listed for the Booker prize. Subsequent novels include The Thought Gang, about an unemployed and alcoholic philosophy professor who hooks up with a failed one-armed bandit in France to form a successful team of bank robbers, and The Collector Collector, about a weekend in South London, narrated by a 5000 year old Sumerian pot. Fischer has also published a book of short stories, Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid (published in the U.S. as I Like Being Killed: Stories). Fischer published Voyage to the End of the Room in 2003. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Fischer More info about the author and his books: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth35 At Lazar u. 16, Free Entry (treehuggerdan)… (more)