Full name: The Mighty Angel: A Novel

Author: Jerzy Pilch Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781934824085 1934824089

The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released--a sober and, more or less, healthy man--after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him face his return to a ruined apartment. While he's in rehab, Jerzy collects the stories of his fellow alcoholics--Don Juan the Rib, The Most Wanted Terrorist in the World, the Sugar King, the Queen of Kent, the Hero of Socialist Labor--in an effort to tell the universal, and particular, story of the alcoholic, and to discover the motivations and drives that underlie the alcoholic's behavior. A simultaneously tragic, comic, and touching novel, The Mighty Angel displays Pilch's caustic humor, ferocious intelligence, and unparalleled mastery of storytelling. Similar books: A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz Flights by Olga Tokarczuk House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk Stone Upon Stone by Wieslaw Mysliwski A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz In Red by Magdalena Tulli Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Canvas by Benjamin Stein A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wieslaw Mysliwski Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver