Genesis Just So! (Hardback or Cased Book)

What really happened "in the beginning"?

In Genesis. Just So! Bob Prophette takes the world's oldest stories and retells them with a twinkle in the eye, a wicked sense of humour, and more than a dash of Kipling's Just So magic. Here the Whale leaps from the formless deep, God misplaces his patience (and occasionally his holidays), Adam wonders what's for breakfast, and Abraham tries very hard indeed to be fruitful-sometimes with surprising results.

These are the tales you half-remember from childhood, half-suspected from Sunday School, and never quite imagined like this. Each chapter re-spins a foundational story of Genesis: creation and catastrophe, serpents with appalling manners, brothers who can't share breakfast, angels with questionable hobbies, and humans who just won't stop building towers. Woven throughout is Prophette's warm, sly commentary on belief, power, blame, and the peculiarities of the God of Genesis-whose infinite resource and sagacity may not always be quite what you expect.

Beautifully illustrated by Stuart Faulkner, Genesis. Just So! is at once a parody, a tribute, and a fresh invitation to read these ancient stories anew. It will make you laugh, wince, ponder, and-perhaps-look again at the first book of the Bible with renewed curiosity.

Because in the High and Far-Off Times, oh Best Beloved, things didn't always happen quite the way you were told.

Bob Prophette is a Priest, Bookie and Judge. A Welsh-Irish-Canadian, born in 1967 in Toronto to Irish parents, he lived in Ireland, England and Wales as a child. He is a dad, analyst, researcher, artist, piss taker, strummer, writer, singer, dancer, deep diver, fool, shaman and prophette. As an author Bob's work is mainly appropriation. Using existing texts in new ways to make a point that would be much more difficult to make otherwise. Other books by Bob Prophette include: The Book of Revelation as Revealed to Bob Prophette. The Bible's most mysterious book given the Dr Seuss treatment with illustrations by Albrecht Dürer.The Suffering of Pooh: The Bible's Book of Job retold by the cast of the Winnie the Pooh books. The Gospel of Saint X: Tolstoy's version of the Gospels, retold in the style of Antione de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince. Bob can be contacted via Bobprophette.com.

Stuart Faulkner is a magician, painter, performer and musician. He can be contacted via gooeystuey.weebly.com.