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Kevin Smith's first feature film, Clerks, was an instant hit, scoring high-profile awards at the prestigious Sundance and Cannes film festivals and earning Smith titles such as "the king of Gen-X cinema" and "the grunge Godot". The mainstream success of last year's Chasing Amy confirmed what his fans already knew -- that Smith is a writer-director of wide appeal. His offbeat characters, bone-dry sense of humor, and jaded optimism signal nothing less than a new kind of American storytelling that is striking the right chord with audiences across the country -- from the hippest to the most conventional.
Now Kevin Smith turns his immense talents to his first novel, Dogma. In it, a pair of duped angels unwittingly orchestrate the unmaking of existence, thanks to a loophole in Catholic dogma, and it's up to an unbelieving lapsed Catholic, the unsung thirteenth Apostle, a muse with writer's block, and a pair of stoners -- who may or may not be prophets -- to stop them. Meanwhile, as an angst-riddendemon and his dim-witted minions plot behind the scenes and the Holy Mother Church reinvents herself for the next millennium under the aegis of
| ISBN-13 | 9780786864065 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0786864060 |
| Weight | 0.01 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.00 x 8.25 In |
| List Price | $22.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
| Publisher | Hyperion Books |
| Published On | 2000-09-01 |
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