Foy
On the Road to Lost
by Gordon Atkinson
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Pub Date Mar 01 2017 | Archive Date Apr 30 2017
Material Media | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
With gut-wrenching prose, Gordon Atkinson creates Foy Davis, a character that astounds us with his truth and humanity.
Foy is a minister who can no longer make sense of the religious world into which he was born. A strange bus journey to the heart of New Orleans marks his exit from a familiar life and a rebirth into a new reality. But the secular world is a strange and lonely place for Foy. As he searches for an identity separate from the church, he keenly observes the everyday, rendering ordinary moments unexpectedly significant.
Foy is determined to chart his own course rather than allowing others to define who he is. A series of flashbacks to his childhood and his time as an unorthodox minister give us clues to the forces that shaped this man and a glimpse of what may be in store for him.
Author of RealLivePreacher.com, Turtles All the Way Down, and A Christmas Story You’ve Never Heard, Foy: On the Road to Lost is Gordon Atkinson’s debut fiction novel.
Advance Praise
“Few writers can match Gordon Atkinson’s ability to tell stories about the sacred in our everyday lives. Foy is a work of power, beauty and clarity – I saw the world and myself more clearly after reading it. I think you will too.” Greg Garrett, Author of The Prodigal and Entertaining Judgment
“As a biblical scholar teaching in the Bible Belt, I welcome this compilation of Gordon Atkinson’s stories of the spiritual wanderings of Foy… The stories are placed in a sequence that reveals the full arc of Foy’s journey to this point, as though Foy himself has just stopped to ask, “How did I get here?” Atkinson combines… respect for his West Texas characters with clear-eyed recognition of the harm, the pathos, and the challenge of the kind of Christianity that shaped Foy’s life…” Jane Patterson, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780996753555 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
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