The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer namedJerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's beenreleased—a sober and, more or less, healthy man—after treatmentat the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteentimes he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up thesupplies that are necessary to help him face his return to a ruinedapartment. While he's in rehab, Jerzy collects the stories of his fellowalcoholics—Don Juan the Rib, The Most Wanted Terrorist in the World,the Sugar King, the Queen of Kent, the Hero of Socialist Labor—in aneffort to tell the universal, and particular, story of the alcoholic, andto discover the motivations and drives that underlie the alcoholic'sbehavior. A simultaneously tragic, comic, and touching novel, The Mighty Angeldisplays Pilch's caustic humor, ferocious intelligence, and unparalleledmastery of storytelling.