Back To Bethany

This is the story of Lapis Lazarus, so-called because he remained “a kind of blue” all his  regained life, as he comes to terms with Jesus, who has the habit of hanging around the Legion Hall in Abbotsford, enjoying a morning coffee and then a smoke. Several other townsfolk enter into this revisioning of the Kairos, including the village idiot. A serious fiction; at the same time it is damn funny.

John Livingstone (R. John) Clark was born on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, and has lived in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan since 1984. He attended the University of British Columbia and obtained his B.A. in English and Anthropology and an MFA in Creative Writing, as well as doing graduate work in English at Simon Fraser University and at the University of Sydney (Australia) on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He currently teaches English at the University of Saskatchewan Indian Teacher Education Programme, and at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, Saskatchewan. In addition, he is involved in writing diverse projects for various magazines and is at work on a full-length book on Canadian poet Anne Szumigalski.