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Jesus´ Son
Denis Johnson
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Description for Jesus´ Son
Paperback. A classic of Twentieth-Century American Literature from one of America's greatest living writers. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
A classic of Twentieth-Century American literature from one of America's greatest writers. 'Intense, vicious, and beautiful... Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer' Mary Gaitskill Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. It is a record of spiralling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, his mind at once clouded and made brilliantly lucid by drugs. In the course of his adventures he ... Read more
A classic of Twentieth-Century American literature from one of America's greatest writers. 'Intense, vicious, and beautiful... Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer' Mary Gaitskill Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. It is a record of spiralling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, his mind at once clouded and made brilliantly lucid by drugs. In the course of his adventures he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847086709
SKU
V9781847086709
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99-99
About Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award in the US.
Reviews for Jesus´ Son
Truly extraordinary
Marc Lambert, Books of the Year
Scotland on Sunday
The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson's
Jonathan Franzen Denis Johnson is inspired, in the truest sense of that once-potent, even dangerous word.
LA Times
Writing of a ferocious intensity ... No ... Read more
Marc Lambert, Books of the Year
Scotland on Sunday
The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson's
Jonathan Franzen Denis Johnson is inspired, in the truest sense of that once-potent, even dangerous word.
LA Times
Writing of a ferocious intensity ... No ... Read more