Jesus’ Son
Denis Johnson
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 06-09-2012
£8.99
A classic of Twentieth-Century American Literature from one of America’s greatest living writers.
Temporarily out of stock
SKU: 9781847086709
Categories: Modern and contemporary fiction, Short storiesDescription
Jesus’ Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell 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 these drugs. In the course of his adventures, he meets an assortment of people, who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners, misfits, the lost, the damned, the desperate and the forgotten. Our of their bleak, seemingly random lives, Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh and devastating beauty.
Additional information
Weight | 0.108 kg |
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Dimensions | 8 × 129 × 198 mm |
Page Count | 144 |
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