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A Gradual Backslide

A Gradual Backslide

Ellinger, Jeffrey

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0692597611
ISBN13: 9780692597613
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 19 2016
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
A Gradual Backslide traces the steps of Joseph Bethel, a child born with a spiritual triptych imprinted on his soul. In one frame he stands at the altar beside a dark-haired volleyball player, in another he is a man who wins souls for God, and in the last he lives eternally in happiness. But as Joseph grows up, sin erodes the image, and he must use his own will to imagine another masterpiece. The novel starts in the early '80s then picks up in the late '90s in the Midwest, in a time when religious teenagers across the United States believed in the wisdom of advice books on how to court The One. A Gradual Backslide follows what happens as those promises disintegrate, examining the unsettled mind of someone whose prayers for what he thought was guaranteed go perpetually unanswered.

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