Larry Woiwode has been called "a prodigiously gifted stylist" (The New Republic) who can "wring your heart" (The Boston Globe) with his talent for evoking in language "pure, cleanly wrought beauty until it is made to seem both universal and extraordinary" (The Atlantic Monthly). Here Woiwode turns to the book of Acts, the generational history of the early Christians, and finds it a suitable framework within which to share his thoughts on storywriting, Christianity, the deleterious impact of culture upon the contemporary church, and the church's inability to clearly define itself or respond effectively to cultural attacks. Woiwode takes us through the narrative journey of the book of Acts, analyzing each event with a writer's sensibility. He establishes a clear-eyed view of the true basis and purpose of Christianity, and points out how today's Church seems to be drifting farther and farther from those origins. Fresh and compelling, filled with revelations of Woiwode's own spiritual journey, Acts will absorb and enlighten anyone who has savored this master writer's fictional work.

Acts

Religion & Spirituality

WOIWODE, Larry

Christian Books & Bibles

Harpercollins

Focuses on the seemingly idyllic relationship between two brothers, Jerome and Charles, that, over a period of more than twenty years, takes on growing overtones of competitiveness, buried sexuality, and self-destruction

Born Brothers (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin??Books

THIIS CONTEMPORY AMERICAN NOVEL TRACES THE STORY OF 4 GENERATIONS OF THE NEUMILLER FAMILY -FROM NORTH DAKOTA IN THE 1800s TO NEW YORK IN THE 1960s

Beyond the Bedroom Wall (Contemporary American Fiction)

This volume collects Woiwode's original series, written for the New Yorker in the sixties and seventies and later incorporated into his second novel, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, but also a fresh harvest of more recent stories about the immigrant family determined to preserve the values they had brought with them to America.

The Neumiller Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK.

Weidenfeld & Nic. (1970)

What I'm Going to Do, I Think

Ballantine Books

Chronicles the several interacting lives of the older and younger Neumillers of North Dakota and Illinois through a sequence of interrelated, stop-action views of their personalities, actions, demands, concerns, and desires

Beyond the Bedroom Wall

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Born Brothers

United States

Even Tide

Farrar, 1977

This volume collects Woiwode's original series, written for the New Yorker in the sixties and seventies and later incorporated into his second novel, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, but also a fresh harvest of more recent stories about the immigrant family determined to preserve the values they had brought with them to America.

The Neumiller Stories

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

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