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Angels
Denis Johnson
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Description for Angels
paperback. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ New York Times
Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.
So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099440833
SKU
9780099440833
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99-1
About Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 ... Read more
Reviews for Angels
Johnson succeeds so well as to make one eager for more
John Sutherland
London Review of Books
A beautifully tragic chronicle
New York Magazine
Denis Johnson is one of our most inventive, unpredictable novelists
New York Times Book Review
Johnson knows his people inside out, their lost, lonely, never-had-a-chance lives. He knows how ... Read more
John Sutherland
London Review of Books
A beautifully tragic chronicle
New York Magazine
Denis Johnson is one of our most inventive, unpredictable novelists
New York Times Book Review
Johnson knows his people inside out, their lost, lonely, never-had-a-chance lives. He knows how ... Read more