Jesus' Son: Stories

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 96 pages

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.

Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. The insights and careening energy in Jesus' Son have earned the book a place of its own among the classics of twentieth-century American literature. It was adapted into a critically-praised film in 1999.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Two Men
11
Out on Bail
27
Dundun
35
Work
43
Emergency
55
Dirty Wedding
73
The Other Man
85
Happy Hour
95
Steady Hands at Seattle General
105
Beverly Home
113
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

Denis Johnson (1949-2017) is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award.

Bibliographic information

TitleJesus' Son: Stories
Volume 3 of Picador Modern Classics
AuthorDenis Johnson
Editionunabridged, reprint
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
ISBN1466806885, 9781466806887
Length96 pages
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Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / World Literature / American / 20th Century
  
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