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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

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

He connects his story to larger universal stories and illustrates these stories with hundreds of edited film clips and projected Integrating hundreds of film clips and photographic images into a theatrical celebration of the Cinematic Savior, it's the tale of two epic heroes on a search for transcendence: Jesus, the Son of God -- Mike, the son of a TV writer. Jesus didn't go looking for it in order to be a hero. So this guy walks into a dark room. Jesus' Son is almost a novel in short story form. Son of Man is an updated story of the life of Jesus set in the fictional State of Judea that is modern day South Africa – complete with warlords and child soldiers. We see this same grace and love in the story from Luke. 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. He sits down and for 70 minutes tells a story about his own life. Jesus comes across a funeral procession, again a widow's only son. The unnamed narrator of the stories is an alcoholic drug addict who manages to survive through a mix of petty thievery, odd odd jobs, and straight-up bumming it. Ed Markey drew a sharp distinction Tuesday night between math and arithmetic.