Elmore Leonard wrote dialogue so well "you’d think it’s transcribed from real conversations, and he knows more about how to craft a living, breathing character out of thin air than God."
Leonard wrote that: "I grew up Catholic, went to Mass every day in grade school and high school; was taught by the Jesuits; spent two and a half years in the Navy during the war; returned, and was graduated from another Jesuit school, the University of Detroit. I even taught catechism in the ’60s, although I just told stories for the most part. "
He said in one interview: "I haven’t been to mass in probably 20 years. But I was in AA, you see. I’m still part of that because it worked. I haven’t had a drink since ’77 ... Higher power. That’s what keeps you straight. The higher power isn’t defined necessarily as God, but because I was brought up Catholic, it’s easy for me to do it that way."
Bandits and Pagan Babies
both have a focus on issues of Catholicism and organized religion with more
invested in their questions of doctrine and faith. Touch provides a wry
take on fame and the miraculous when Juvenal, a former brother of a Catholic
order in Brazil who now helps alcoholics in a Detroit rehabilitation centre,
performs a miracle cure on a woman who has been beaten by her husband. The story
contrasts the love Juvenal finds with the business and church zealots who seek
to exploit his gift.
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Dave Grohl - Touch.
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