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A Memoir of Faith
St. Martin's Press
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 031238596X EAN: 9780312385965 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Joe Eszterhas grew up in refugee camps and then in
America’s back alleys. He worked as a police reporter,
racing the cops to robberies and shootings. He interviewed
and wrote about mass murders and serial killers. He wrote
dark, sexually graphic, and violent films like Basic
Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Jade. Eszterhas knew a lot about darkness. Then, on a hellishly
hot day in 2001, desperately battling to survive throat
cancer and his addictions to alcohol and cigarettes, Joe
Eszterhas found God. Or God found him. And he came from darkness into light. Crossbearer is the powerful, poignant, and sometimes wryly
humorous account of a streetwise and cynical man’s newfound
faith, and of how he discovers God in the most intimate and
routine moments of life: a family game of baseball, a
child’s photograph of a cloud, a dying mother’s dying roses.
It is also the inspiring story of a man who must overcome
his addictions to stay alive—and can’t by himself. He
realizes that he needs the love of his wife, his children,
and especially his new friend, God, to do it. Eszterhas is a master memoirist—his Hollywood Animal was
called “powerful and affecting” (The New York
Times), “absolutely first-rate” (Los Angeles Times Book
Review) and “heartbreaking, funny and outrageous” (Houston
Chronicle)—and with Crossbearer he reveals a fresh and
completely unexpected new chapter of his life. With surprising tenderness and a willingness to bare even
weaknesses and mistakes, Joe Eszterhas has written a
startling personal story about faith, values, family and
love.
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