Jujitsu for Christ [Hardcover]

Jack Butler (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: August House Pub Inc; First Edition edition (September 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087483015X
• ISBN-13: 978-0874830156
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,474,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Near Perfection, December 13, 2002

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Tim Hewitt (Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jujitsu for Christ (Contemporary American Fiction) (Paperback)

I've kept copies of this book around for years just to pass out to friends. I've even taught this book in an English class. This slim little book is laugh-out-loud funny in places, heartbreaking in others. A simple description of the plot would not do this book justice. "Jujitsu for Christ" is about race relations, martial arts, comic books, super heroes, human heroes, born-again baptists, left-out losers, and the need we all have to connect with others and be included. The language of the book is sheer Southern poetry, flowing like sweet cherry wine from one word to the next, without ever being over-wrought or artificial. Displaying his mastery of language and cadence, Butler commits to paper in two pages of rhythmic, run-on sentences the most spot-on accurate description of summer in the deep South that's ever been written and goes on to pull off an astonishing narrative "trick" halfway through the book that impacts the novel's entire point of view. This is a beautiful book worth reading again and again. That it's out of print is a sad commentary on the state of publishing in America. Find it. Read it. Treasure it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Diamond in the Rough, January 22, 2007

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Scott Masterton (Blaine, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jujitsu for Christ (Contemporary American Fiction) (Paperback)

This little book ranks with "To Kill A Mockingbird" or "In Cold Blood" as a truly American classic.

Told through a "secret" narrator (at least secret until the final pages of the book), "Jujitsu for Christ" takes place in early 60's Mississippi during the initial struggle of black men, women and children to be free of the legacy of slavery. Although the books feature character Roger Wing is a young white man living in a primarily black neighborhood in Mississippi; the real main character of the book is not a character at all. It is the weaving of all of the characters as author Jack Butler adroitly links the attitudes, mores, people and historical time into an entertaining and yet deeply truthful book.

"Jujitsu for Christ" is a wonderful piece of literature that leaves nothing to chance and is a clear demonstration of the laws of Karma.
If you have the chance to read this book you might find that it changes, however minutely, how you think about the world.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jujitsu for Christ To Be Reprinted!, June 25, 2008

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L. E Johnson (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jujitsu for Christ (Contemporary American Fiction) (Paperback)

That's right. Now that Jack Butler has completed his fifth novel, THE ILLUMINATION OF ELIJAH LEE ROSWELL, his great and classic Southern novel JUJITSU FOR CHRIST is going to be reprinted! I don't know if it's going to be this year or next year but it will finally be available again, as it should always have been. We'll now have two reasons to celebrate.