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Cross Roads by WM. Paul Young
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Cross Roads (original 2012; edition 2012)

by WM. Paul Young (Author)

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Fiction. Literature. Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He "awakens" to find himself in a surreal world, a "living" landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his own subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps, redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational entanglements where he is able to "see" through the literal eyes and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the consequences of hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the processes of healing and trust. Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?… (more)
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A story of the incremental transformation of a man caught in the torments of his own creation.
  MenoraChurch | Sep 24, 2023 |
7年前,他從最痛苦的生命經歷淬鍊出《小屋》,自行印刷了15本,今日,《小屋》已療癒了全球超過18,000,000名讀者。

他是保羅.楊──當今世上最溫柔、最懂得刻畫我們心靈風景的作家。

7年後,他寫下了《十字路口》,在美國以首刷100萬冊的天量撼動書市,再創療癒小說閱讀風潮。這一次,所有曾在生命中感到孤獨、疏離的人,都將從他的故事找到巨大的撫慰與力量「孤獨」這個詞完全不足以形容安東尼的心靈。他活得像個刺蝟,生命中毫無任何親密的人際關係。某日,他竟在劇烈頭痛後忽然陷入昏迷,性命垂危。

當他睜開眼,只見一片陌生的荒地,在那裡,有個老奶奶給了他一份「療癒禮物」,邀請他踏上一段旅程──尋找生命中真心想治癒的人。他卻認為這只是藥物所導致的夢境,努力想清醒過來。

再次睜開眼時,他置身病房,一個女人忽然朝他喊道:「媽媽終於找到你了!」安東尼赫然發現自己正透過一個男孩的眼睛看到外界,還能隱約感受到他和媽媽相擁的觸感。這究竟是怎麼回事?

當兩個現實交錯出現,被困在男孩腦中的安東尼,該如何讓昏迷的自己甦醒?面對荒地上未知的旅程,眼前只有無數的十字路口、一次又一次的選擇。他究竟該往前走、留在原地,或是跳下懸崖結束一切?老奶奶的療癒禮物,又會引領他走向何方?

「每個人,都是一個故事。」作者保羅.楊如此深信著。在他的巧手安排下,安東尼跳脫自己的生命經驗,從他人眼中重新見證了自己的故事,看著過往每一個因脆弱、恐懼、自私,而做出的錯誤選擇,是如何激起生命的漣漪,無形中撼動了最深愛的人。最後,我們將會在安東尼的身上,看見自己的影子,並和他一樣,以嶄新的眼光,重新與自己相遇。

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威廉.保羅.楊(Wm. Paul Young)

「我曾以為自己的成長過程很『正常』,但如今我想大多數的人應該都會同意:我經歷的故事和旅程,的確是有那麼一點點不尋常。」──威廉.保羅.楊

生於加拿大的傳教士家庭,幼年隨父母至新幾內亞傳教,卻在當地的部落與寄宿學校遭到長期性侵。十歲時全家回到加拿大,父親往返各地巡迴宣教,因此他在高中畢業前一共轉了13所不同的學校。成年後他在美國奧瑞岡成家立業,卻接連歷經婚外情的考驗,以及投資失利、破產等人生關卡,在低潮時曾與妻兒窩在25坪的租屋處,日夜兼差三份工作養家,並接受心理治療,努力與家人修復關係。

保羅.楊一直有著寫作的習慣,但只是寫些短篇故事和詩詞分享給朋友。妻子多年來一直鼓勵他將自己的人生觀寫下來送給孩子們,於是在這段經濟窘困的時期,他在每天40分鐘的通勤車程上開始創作《小屋》,向6個孩子傳達他對上帝的看法。在那年買不起禮物的聖誕節,這本自費印刷的書籍,就是他唯一能送給孩子的。他坦言自己花費50年的光陰去探究「我們該如何好好回應生命中的難題」,也花了50年成為「孩子」,才能從自己50年的經歷中淬煉出《小屋》,當作禮物送給孩子。

自費印刷了15本以後,有三位好友鼓勵他找出版社投稿,卻接連遭到26家出版社拒絕,於是他們在2007年決定自行創立Windblown出版社來發行《小屋》。誰也沒想到的是,這本僅花了300美金宣傳的小說,靠著野火燎原的口碑,出版13個月便售出110萬冊,接著在《紐約時報》暢銷榜長踞冠軍達一年之久。如今,《小屋》已經在全球翻譯為50種語言出版,銷售破兩千萬冊。接著保羅.楊也往靈魂更深處探索,再寫下了新書《十字路口》,並形容自己隨著故事而蛻變,成為一個更好的父親、更好的人。

2017年,醞釀多時的《小屋》改編電影《心靈小屋》終於上映,由性格男星山姆.沃辛頓與奧斯卡最佳女配角奧塔薇亞.史班森主演。看著大銀幕上的詮釋,我們都再次憶起《小屋》是如何改變了許多讀者的生命。

目錄:

各界口碑推薦  003
〈推薦序〉 從十字路口到康莊大道 彭蕙仙 007
1 風暴雲集 015
2 塵歸塵,土歸土 031
3 很久很久以前 040
4 家,心繫之所在 066
5 合而為一 073
6 激烈的對話 093
7 悄悄溜走 103
8 靈魂是什麼? 113
9 聚會的風暴 126
10 三心二意 142
11 猶豫不決 157
12 漸趨複雜的情節 168
13 內心的交戰 184
14 面對面 213
15 內殿 235
16 一塊派 242
17 上鎖的房間 257
18 十字路口 273
19 禮物 276
20 現在 291
給讀者的話與致謝 293
  CCCClibrary | Sep 13, 2023 |
Jesus pegou a mão de Tony.

– Na jornada que está prestes a começar, você poderá escolher curar fisicamente uma pessoa, mas só uma. Assim que escolhê-la, a sua jornada chegará ao fim.

– Posso curar uma pessoa? Está me dizendo que sou capaz de curar quem eu quiser? – Na mesma hora, seus pensamentos se voltaram para o seu próprio corpo em um quarto de UTI. – Deixe-me ver se entendi. Posso curar qualquer pessoa que quiser?
Jesus se inclinou na direção dele.

– Na verdade, você não pode curar ninguém, não sozinho. Mas estarei do seu lado, e a pessoa por quem você decidir orar, eu a curarei através de você.

Um derrame cerebral deixa Anthony Spencer, um multimilionário egocêntrico, em coma. Quando “acorda”, ele se vê em um mundo surreal habitado por um estranho, que descobre ser Jesus, e por uma idosa que é o Espírito Santo.

À sua frente se descortina uma paisagem que lhe revela toda a mágoa e a tristeza de sua vida terrena. Jamais poderia ter imaginado tamanho horror. Debatendo-se contra um sofrimento emocional insuportável, ele implora por uma segunda chance.

Sua prece é ouvida e ele é enviado de volta à Terra, onde viverá uma experiência de profunda comunhão com uma série de pessoas e terá a oportunidade de reexaminar a própria vida. Nessa jornada, precisará “enxergar” através dos olhos dos outros e conhecer suas visões de mundo, suas esperanças, seus medos e seus desafios.

Na busca de redenção, Tony deverá usar um poder que lhe foi concedido: o de curar uma pessoa. Será que ele terá coragem de fazer a escolha certa?
  bibliotecapresmil | Sep 5, 2022 |
The best part of the book were the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. ( )
  Suzanne81 | Oct 30, 2021 |
I read 'The Shack' a number of years ago and really enjoyed it. This one is better, I think, than 'The Shack,' mainly because we get to see Mr. Young's idea of what 'near death experiences' are all about. It is very well written, but there is an enormous amount of doctrine that needs to be waded through to get to the story embedded in it. It is also very emotional (what some people would, no doubt, call a real 'tear-jerker'). There are a few things I would point out that may not be obvious to many readers (NO Spoilers!!). No. 1. The character Jack is based on "Jack Lewis," otherwise known as C. S. Lewis, author of 'The Chronicles of Narnia,' etc. (I can hear certain readers going 'DUH-H-H!,' to whom I would merely say, trust me, there are those who don't know). No. 2.: and this applies to 'The Shack' as well. I don't know if Mr. Young knows this, but having the Holy Spirit be female is a view that was taken by the Shakers, who also had the 2nd coming of Christ be Mother Ann Lee, founder of that Sect. And they were very much the sort of people that Young depicts as 'heavenly' in the two books. Which is to say, the Shakers were very much dependent upon an almost 'utopian' communistic and celibate network of relationships almost like Young portrays in this book. Getting back to the story, I really did enjoy the comedic episodes where 'Tony' infiltrated 'Maggie' -- it reminded me of the movie "All of Me," starring Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. A real scream. Okay. so - ( )
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This story is dedicated to our grandchildren,

each a unique reflection of their parents,

each their own universe unexplored,

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Fiction. Literature. Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He "awakens" to find himself in a surreal world, a "living" landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his own subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps, redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational entanglements where he is able to "see" through the literal eyes and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the consequences of hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the processes of healing and trust. Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?

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