The end is nigh and the Prince of Darkness has just been offered one hell of a deal: reentry into Heaven for eternity—if he can live out a well-behaved life in a human body on earth. It’s the ultimate case of trying without buying and, despite the limitations of the human body in question (previous owner one suicidally unsuccessful writer, Deelan Gunn), Luce seizes the opportunity to run riot through the realm of the senses. This is his chance to straighten the biblical record (Adam, it’s hinted, was a misguided variation on the Eve design), to celebrate his favorite achievements (everything from the Inquisition to Elton John), and, most important, to get Julia Roberts attached to his screenplay. But the experience of walking among us isn’t what His Majesty expected: instead of teaching us what it’s like to be him, Lucifer finds himself understanding what it’s like to be us.
By an author hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain’s top twenty young novelists, I, Lucifer is “a masterpiece…startlingly witty, original and beautifully written” (Good Book Guide).
The Washington Post
What really makes this novel sensational is not the bacchanalian word revelry or its hilarious biblical revisionism. Rather, it”s the seemingly implausible story of the devil”s awakening to his latent humanity. Duncan just blew me away with his conceit that the devil was so overcome with Blakean awe in his discovery of our sensory world — “The sky. For Heaven”s sake the sky … the blueness of it threatened to swallow my brand-new consciousness whole” — that he would ask, “This can”t be what it”s like for them. If this is what it”s like for them how do they … how on earth can they … get anything done?” — Tom Paine
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