Almighty Me

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Houghton Mifflin, 1991 - Fiction - 263 pages
Imagine what can happen when car salesman Charlie Wiggins gets the power of God for a full year, no strings attached. Wiggins sets out to make the world right, only to find out that omnipotence has its limitations. Here is comedy at its blackest and funniest.

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Section 1
35
Section 2
47
Section 3
53
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About the author (1991)

Robert Charles Bausch was born at Fort Benning, Georgia on April 18, 1945. In 1965, he and his twin brother enlisted in the Air Force and served together for four years, teaching survival tactics. He received a bachelor's degree in 1974, a master's degree in English in 1975, and a master of fine arts in creative writing in 2001 from George Mason University. He taught at a private school before becoming an instructor at Northern Virginia Community College in 1975. He received a statewide award in 2013 as one of Virginia's leading college professors. His first novel, On the Way Home, was published in 1982. His other novels included A Hole in the Earth, The Gypsy Man, Out of Season, Far as the Eye Can See, The Legend of Jesse Smoke, and In the Fall They Come Back. His novel Almighty Me was adapted into the movie Bruce Almighty. In 2009, he received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature from Longwood University for his body of work. He died from multiple myeloma October 9, 2018 at the age of 73.

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