Review of the Book of God by Waltr Wangerin

SAINT JULIAN

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Writer Harper San Francisco $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-052252-0

National Book Award–winning author Wangerin (The Book of Dun Cow) retells the story of St. Julian the Hospitaller, patron saint of carnival workers, ferrymen, wandering musicians and other peripatetic souls. The narrator is an elderly cleric...

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The Crying for a Vision

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Simon & Schuster $16 (279p) ISBN 978-0-671-79911-3

Wangerin's (Branta and the Gilt Stone) epic business relationship of a male child'due south sacrifice to save a Native American nation from the aftermath of a near-apocalyptic war works both as myth and as a story of the Lakota people. Moves Walking, a immature orphan with...

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In the Beginning There Was No Sky: A Story of Creation

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Writer Thomas Nelson Publishers $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8407-6671-7

There is nada every bit creamy as the prose of Oscar Wildespoofing both Brits and Yanks, ethereal and earthlyin one of the about famously funny ghost stories of all time. Is it for children? A resounding yeah; doubters are challenged to read the...

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Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-069267-4

This collection of 12 independent, autobiographical tales takes the shape of a spiritual quest, ``the experience of seeking meaning in everyday events.'' Wangerin, formerly a Lutheran pastor, and author of the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow ,

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The Crying for a Vision

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80650-6

In a starred review, PW said that Wangerin ""powerfully conveys the spiritual beliefs and traditions of the Lakota"" in this ""stirring"" gamble of a male child's sacrifice to save his people. Ages 12-up. (Mar.)

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The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Zondervan Publishing Company $27.99 (633p) ISBN 978-0-310-20005-5

""This is not the Bible,"" Wangerin (The Book of the Dun Cow; Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace; etc.) says of this newest work. But information technology is a novel featuring many of the Bible'due south most dramatic characters. He partitions the whole into eight parts:...

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Jesus: A Novel

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Zondervan $xix.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-310-26673-0

Falling solidly within the genre of Wangerin's previous novels, this book often feels more like a Eugene Peterson–style paraphrase of the New Testament than an bodily work of fiction. While Wangerin invents dialogue, events and characters...

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Letters from the Land of Cancer

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Writer Zondervan $16.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-310-29281-4

The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully, wrote essayist Samuel Johnson. In the case of prolific author and teacher Wangerin (Saint Julian ), a diagnosis of lung cancer collection him not to despair simply to writing, his usual way of...

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Branta and the Golden Stone

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Deborah Healey, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-79693-8

In this resonant work from the pair who collaborated on Elisabeth and the Water-Troll , the depth and richness of Wangerin's text is deftly matched by Healy's dynamic oil paintings. Branta is a girl who lives alone in a cottage on a lake ``on the...

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Paul

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Rick Beerhorst, Illustrator Zondervan Publishing Company $22.99 (509p) ISBN 978-0-310-21892-0

In his second Bible-based novel, Wangerin delivers an uneven but informative narrative portraying the Campaigner Paul equally a flawed, confrontational man who inspires either murderous hate or passionate love. Reminiscent of both Eugene Peterson'due south...

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Water Come Down

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Gerardo Suzan, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3711-2

Tackling complex theological issues, this illuminating book for the most part succeeds in introducing children to the concepts surrounding baptism. As Wangerin (Probity Jones and the Fear Not Affections) explains, his arroyo is structured on a passage...

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Probity Jones and Fear Not Ang

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Tim Ladwig, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $sixteen.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8066-2992-half dozen

Ill with a fever and forced to stay home and miss her Christmas pageant operation, young Probity witnesses a Christmas phenomenon of her very own. Folded within the silken robes of the Fearfulness Not Angel, Probity soon hovers loftier above her Christmas...

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ANGELS & ALL CHILDREN: A Nativity Story in Words

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Tim Ladwig, Illustrator, Randy Courts, Composer , illus. by Tim Ladwig, music by Randy Courts. Augsburg $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3712-ix

Wangerin (previously paired with Ladwig for Probity Jones and the Fear-Non Angel) envisions a musical stage production of the Nativity, to be performed past families equally well equally church building and school groups. The premise may offend many readers: because...

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Bedtime Rhyme

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Writer, Benrei Huang, Author, Benrei Huang, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3701-3

In a series of rhymes, Wangerin (Probity Jones and the Fear Non Angel) dispels a child's fear of the dark past teaching the lessons of God's love and presence. As the rhymes begin, a mother responds to her son's question: ""How much do I love you?/...

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Whole Prayer: Speaking and Listening to God

Walter Wangerin, Jr., Writer, Eugene H. Peterson, Foreword by Zondervan Publishing Company $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-310-20197-7

Wangerin, writer of the bestselling The Volume of God, seeks to empathize why people need to pray. Using personal stories, poesy, hymns and scripture, he defines and explores four aspects of prayer: how we speak to God; how God listens to our...

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