Passage Through Gehenna

by Madison Jones

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807103764
• ISBN13: 9780807103760
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Disquieting Masterpiece

Passage through Gehenna is, by turns, a slowly, gently unfolding love story with an inevitable tragic ending and an allegory of the battle between good and evil. As in his other works, Madison Jones wrestles earnestly with a Christian conception of good and evil and with the consequences of temptation, which play out against the backdrop of a small Southern town. With its restrained lyricism, the book is simultaneously lovely and terrible. Each time I read it, I feel the same sense of shame, the lump in my throat, the hopeless wish that things will end differently for Hannah and Jud. This is a masterpiece.