Jude Parker: 7 books

One year after an astounding literary debut, Jude Parker returns with a very different novel. This story is told through the eyes of a lost and lonely college student as he drives from his girlfriend's college campus to his own after they may or may not have broken up - again. The rarely-implemented...

Doing Time is about complex emotional involvements, sexual explicitness, and fragile irony, while presenting the hidden underpinnings of social intercourse.    Jude Parker's uninhibited imagination allows him to infuse his writing with a voice that is innovative, provocative, spiritual, and heartfelt, while demonstrating a sense of rollick and an openness to revelation.

Everyone thinks Joseph is a good man. He is kind, considerate, humble, attends church several times a week, and donates money to a number of little children in other countries. His favorite is a Bulgarian girl he exchanges letters with several times a month. When he finally arranges to fly the little...

"Everything that they taught us, was nothing but lies. Everything that they brought us, was nothing but bribes. But it'll all be over now." - Jim Steinman. Original Sin. When a van belonging to three Christians breaks down during a severe thunderstorm, they seek refuge inside a local...

Julia is an aspiring actress in San Francisco who is bored with her life, and frustrated with her husband and motherhood. When an intelligent playwright enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and a sexual odyssey that eventually leads to an exploration of the nature of desire, infatuation, obsession, and real love.

In the spirit of Paul and the early apostles, Josh and his sister Christal spend an entire Sunday walking through a quiet neighborhood, hoping they can inspire people to believe in Jesus through their door-to-door evangelism. But in their well-meaning efforts to save people from the burning...

Set in the 1980's, "I, The Rain" is a disturbing novel of youthful disaffection and depravity among wealthy teenagers in South Florida. In a series of mesmerizing vignettes, the deeply unhappy main character recounts, in a droning first person narration, her aimless wanderings through days...