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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

There was nothing of his I wanted in particular. She is so strong in fighting the fight of faith – I LOVE It!! €�The hope of the resurrection” say Baptist scholar Alan Culpepper, “is not grounded in the fact that the widow's son came back to life but in the fact that the one who had the compassion to bring back the widow's son has himself triumphed over death” [You may as well know from the start of what may be a happy Not insignificantly this is also the moment that Luke, in his Jesus-story, refers to Jesus as “Lord” (v. These stories tell of spiraling grief and trancendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of. Joe—is that why Junkie Love is a true story—because you could never capture the real thing in fiction? Johnson's Jesus' Son is reckless. It all seems so careless, so destitute, so…intense. Please read her son's story and be inspired by her persistence to chase after the healing promised to her son through Jesus. The eleven sections of Jesus’ Son are relentless. The stories crash, the characters crash, the language crashes. Remember the Sunday school stories? My first contact with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son was reading “Steady Hands” when it came out in Esquire. Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping. I was recently listening to an old episode of The New Yorker's excellent Fiction podcast a few weeks ago on which Tobias Wolffe read Denis Johnson's story Emergency from the collection Jesus' Son. As you know, the story is just a couple of pages of dialogue, almost completely free of the other elements of scene. I only saw the movie of Jesus' Son.