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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Joe—is that why Junkie Love is a true story—because you could never capture the real thing in fiction? The stories crash, the characters crash, the language crashes. We in the Christian era view Elijah as prototype of the Jesus, the Christ – Messiah and Son of God. Johnson's Jesus' Son is reckless. I only saw the movie of Jesus' Son. My first contact with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son was reading “Steady Hands” when it came out in Esquire. It all seems so careless, so destitute, so…intense. 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?? As you know, the story is just a couple of pages of dialogue, almost completely free of the other elements of scene. And so people believed that Elijah would return to announce the beginning of the messianic age.