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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson ebook
Page: 59
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0060975776, 9780060975777

Ed Markey drew a sharp distinction Tuesday night between math and arithmetic. Jesus could directly command the dead man to get up. Jesus' story of the Prodigal Son portrays a God who is like the father, never giving up on his children. Jesus' Son, a short story collection from Denis Johnson, is tiny. Jesus' Son (1992) has perhaps as much claim to be a novel as a collection of stories. Though it's a quarter of the thickness of his sprawling Vietnam novel Tree of Smoke, it still packs just as much punch. And since thirty is a week away, i ordered it on abebooks.com (for some odd reason the library did not have a copy) and read it in about two days (due to the quick-paced momentum of the stories). Now, in Matthew and in Luke, you have the expression the Son of God already in the infancy narratives, already referred to obliquely and sometimes directly in the story at Jesus' birth. At the time of Jesus' stay on the Earth some 2000 years ago the story of Dionysus and Osiris were well established but nobody seemed to notice the similarities between the 3 of them?? By the time Jesus gets to the end of the lost son story, it had to be obvious that the theme was about lost things. The poorest and most vulnerable of all, widows in these two stories receive the greatest gift of all – the return of their sons' lives, which meant the possibility of a future. The underlying difference is that one is a prophet – a great one at that; and the other, the Son of God! It is also a story that continues the journey of Jesus whose purpose is to minister to the poor, the outcast and the “sinners”. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson: Connected short stories about an unnamed heroin addict named “fuckhead” who drifts around the country, getting in and out of trouble. This, his only short story collection, is unfathomably out of print in the UK. Stories Jesus Told: The Persistent Widow Stories Jesus Told: The Wise and Foolish Builders. In both of the stories we have today the great figures of faith are helping widows. A similar point is made in the Gospel where Jesus' word raises the dead son of a widow and the people proclaim 'a prophet has come among them'.