Pilchs prose is masterful, and the bulk of The Mighty Angel evokes the same numb, floating sensation as a bottle of Zoladkowa Gorzka.L Magazine-----THE MIGHTY ANGEL concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been releaseda sober and, more or less, healthy manafter treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him face his return to a ruined apartment. While he's in rehab, Jerzy collects the stories of his fellow alcoholicsDon Juan the Rib, The Most Wanted Terrorist in the World, the Sugar King, the Queen of Kent, the Hero of Socialist Laborin an effort to tell the universal, and particular, story of the alcoholic, and to discover the motivations and drives that underlie the alcoholic's behavior. A simultaneously tragic, comic, and touching novel, THE MIGHTY ANGEL displays Pilchs caustic humor, ferocious intelligence, and unparalleled mastery of storytelling.-----About the author:Jerzy Pilch is one of Poland's most important contemporary writers and journalists. In addition to his long-running satirical newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and has been nominated for Poland's prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times; he finally won the Award in 2001 for THE MIGHTY ANGEL. Also available is Pilch's A THOUSAND PEACEFUL CITIES (published 2010).