The Flight of Peter Fromm » (1st Edition)

This intriguing work of contemporary fiction is disguised as the biography of a young man who comes from a Pentecostal background in Oklahoma, and loses his faith while a student at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His mentor, a professor at the divinity school is actually a humanist who believes neither in God nor in an afterlife. This edition includes Gardner's Afterword in which he discusses the surprising public reaction to his novel.