Gospel Hour

by T.R. Pearson

Book Overview

When Donnie Huff survives a near-fatal logging accident, his ambitious mother-in-law insists that he has returned from the dead, and he embarks on a Pentecostal revival trail and a discovery of his own faith.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380710366
• ISBN13: 9780380710362
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Faith healing

If there are others like me who wonder how in the world anyone could take part in a tent meeting or believe in faith healing, there are answers in T. R. Peason's wonderful book. What kind of people go to faith healers? Desperate people who can find neither answers nor help anywhere else. Peason creates characters who are not physically attractive and endows them with a humanity which leads to an understanding of ourselves. I have enjoyed all of Peason's books, but Gospel Hour is especially touching.

I agree

I agree with the other reviews. Pearson is one of the best writers I have encountered. His work is laugh out loud funny. People have stared at me while I was reading one because I was trying to stiffle my laughter. At the same time he does not shy away from difficult subjects: family relations, church (this book especially), etc. This is one of the better of his six books, although the Neeley trilogy is good. If you can get into the rhythm of his writing you will just float along. It takes abit, like listening to original Shakespeare, but like that experience, worth it. I cannot praise Mr. Pearson enough.

one of our best writers

I agree, a crime it (and Call and Response) are out of print. Like one of his blurbs said, Pearson's a cross between Twain and Faulkner. This continues his humorous look at human foibles in a perfectly realized southern small town, written in a voice made for reading out loud. Find it, read it, read the Neely trilogy. If they're hard to get into, read them out loud until you adjust your brain to the rhythm of the writing and speech. You'll be well rewarded.

Funny, touching, scathing, and true

It is a crime that this book is out of print. TR Pearson is a unique voice in American literature, and this is perhaps his best work. (Although The Last of How it Was tells hard and overlooked truths about racism). His novels are touching and funny--both cold-blooded and sympathetic examinations of religion, family, and community. Gospel Hour combines his wit and extraordinary ramblings with brilliant insights about ourselves and our neighbors, and the many motives behind our individual and community searches for salvation. Seek this novel out. Seek out other Pearson novels. Pray for him to publish many more.