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Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com Tribute CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 “really makes you realize how many genres he touched.” The Rev. Billy Graham was among several people to send recorded messages of love, saying he expects to join Cash and June Carter Cash in heaven soon. “He was an oak tree in a garden of weeds,” said Bono, lead singer for the rock group U2, who toast ed Cash with a pint of Guinness beer in a recorded message. “He’s not in a garden of weeds now. He’s in heaven with June where all the saints are.” Ronnie Dunn of the country duo Brooks & Dunn told the audi ence he was wearing a black coat Cash had given him when he was a struggling young artist. “I feel the ghost of Johnny Cash so strong tonight,” he told the au dience. “Do you feel it?” The show ended with the entire Cash family on stage singing with the audience “We’ll Meet Again” from Cash’s final album, “American IV: The Man Conies Around.” With his raw, bare-bones sound, Cash helped pioneer rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, blending Delta blues with Appalachian folk. Steve Earle, who performed “Folsom Prison Blues,” said Cash came to Nashville as an outsider who broke conventions by writ ing his own songs and speaking his mind. “He did things exactly the way he wanted to do them and stuck to his guns, and proved that that can be done and be done successfully,” Earle said. As Robbins put it, Cash “knocked the world of pop music on its ear, then went on to do it in Nashville and the world.” PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Sheryl Crow, above, sang a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ song “Hurt,” popularized by the late Johnny Cash. BY ERIN VAN BRONKHORST TIIKASSOCIATKDI’HKSS SEATTLE — Novelist David Guterson wrestles with spiritual questions while he’s buying light bulbs at the hardware store. “How can there be evil and God? How can there be suffering and God? How can there be gas chambers and killing fields? Who is God? Where is God? What is God? Is there a God? And how can we not ask that question all the time?” he asks. Those questions spurred him to write about a young girl’s vi sions of the Virgin Mary in “Our Lady of the Forest,” his third nov el. The 16-year-old runaway’s enigmatic visions bring a kind of salvation to a rain-drenched lum ber town in Western Washington. Guterson’s latest book follows the haunting murder mystery and multilayered courtroom dra ma of “Snow Falling on Cedars” and the philosophical journey of a dying man in “East of the Mountains,” his second novel. “I think I’m in the situation where early in my career I had a phenomenally successful book and everything will be seen in that context,” he says. ‘“Snow Falling on Cedars’ will always be a sort of foundation or bench-, mark, the context in which my work is considered. For better or worse, that’s the way it is.” Published in 1994, “Snow” told the story of a Japanese-American fisherman who stands trial for his life on a mythical Puget Sound is land haunted by memories of World War II internment camps. The 1995 paperback edition stayed on best seller lists for 77 weeks; the book was also made into a movie, starring Ethan Hawke. Some 3.75 million copies are in print. Guterson’s second novel, “East of the Mountains,” followed with a philosophical tale about a doctor with terminal cancer who heads out for one last journey. The 1999 book also became a best seller. He’s “excited but also appre hensive” about launching “Our Lady of the Forest.” “You’ve totally invested your self in the work and it’s all out on the line,” he says. Reviews of “Our Lady” have been largely favorable. Publishers Weekly praised “evocative prose, pithy dialogue and piercing insights.” Book magazine called it “both riveting and remarkable.” But Newsday criticized an “inconsistency of tone (that) makes the book fall in the cracks between satire and more respectful treatment.” Guterson, a 47-year-old agnos tic, was interested in apparitions of the Virgin Mary as the subject for his book because of human longing for a feminine side to the divine. “Our Lady” crackles with con flict as Ann Holmes tells others about her visions that no one else can see: A solitary Catholic priest and a cynical young woman with an eye for profits shepherd Ann through crowds of worshippers who trample the rainforest; an an gry ex-logger named Tom Cross wreaks havoc but hopes for a mir acle to save his paralyzed son. “My spiritual and religious journey is a permanent one,” he says. “It’s been with me from the beginning of my consciousness as a human being and it contin ues to this day with great fervor and desperation. “I just never seem to come up with any answers, that’s the prob lem. 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