Joshua Beene & God
By: by Jewel Gibson ; with an introduction by Sylvia Ann Grider.
Edition: 1st Texas A&M University Press ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Other titles: Joshua Beene and God
Description: Praised as superb satire by critics and damned as wicked by more than one Texas community, this novel follows one curmudgeonly religious leader's crusade against Spring Creek's Baptists, Holy Rollers, and nonbelievers.

Joshua Ebenezer Beene, as chief elder of the Church of Christ of Spring Creek Community, president of the school board, justice of the peace, and self-appointed game warden, regularly summons God to seek advice on how to carry out his crusade - which, as the novel opens, has taken on a special urgency.

Alerted by the Biblical admonition that "the days of our years are three score years and ten," Joshua believes he has one final year among the living to claim victory in his long-running battle with the town sinners before claiming his heavenly reward.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii).