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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

And so people believed that Elijah would return to announce the beginning of the messianic age. 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' story of the Prodigal Son portrays a God who is like the father, never giving up on his children. I have had Johnson's story collection (connected story collection, that is) Jesus' Son (1992) on my shelf for a long time. Jesus' Son (1992) has perhaps as much claim to be a novel as a collection of stories. We have sons coming back to life. 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). This, his only short story collection, is unfathomably out of print in the UK. In the other direction, at the same time, you have another crowd — the crowd following a widow as she goes to bury her only son. It's a bit embarassing to admit that I've just recently read this collection, but we all have those books on our shelves - Moby Dick anyone? They are heading in one direction. We have widows getting back their places in society. We in the Christian era view Elijah as prototype of the Jesus, the Christ – Messiah and Son of God. And all our stories today have this theme of God and life defeating Sin and Death. 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. For whatever reason, despite others reading it and recommending it highly, I avoided it.