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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Two of the wildest stories listed in the long list of One Story's recent list of top ten favorite short stories are from Denis Johnson's cult classic Jesus' Son. What main points stand out to you in this story? Remember the Sunday school stories? What are their similarities and differences? 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. How would you describe the older son and the younger son? Source of the story that Jesus took Peter, James, and John and went up on a high mountain, and was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and met with Moses and Elijah and was heard a voice coming out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved son, in whom Mat 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. John's birth was spectacular in that he was born to postmenopausal parents, a repeat of the Abraham and Sarah story. Jesus Stories: The Parable of the Two Sons. For whatever reason, despite others reading it and recommending it highly, I avoided it. 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). A father finds a lost son and has a party. The name of this collection comes from the Lou Reed song, Heroin. I have had Johnson's story collection (connected story collection, that is) Jesus' Son (1992) on my shelf for a long time. I only saw the movie of Jesus' Son. Let's read the third of these stories Jesus told - the lost son. Joe—is that why Junkie Love is a true story—because you could never capture the real thing in fiction?