Author: Denis Johnson
Year: 1992
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Genres/categories:
Short Stories, Contemporary, Classic, Humor
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ISBNs:
9780060975777
9780312428747
0060975776
031242874X |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life. Set in the Midwest and West, they are narrated by a young man, an alcoholic and heroin addict, whose dependencies have led him to petty crime, cruelty, betrayal, and various kinds of loss. Many of them are centered around the Vine, a bar in an Iowa town where the narrator meets his friends and forms alliances "based on something erroneous, some basic misunderstanding that hadn't yet come to light."
Contents:
- Car Crash While Hitchhiking
- Two Men
- Out on Bail
- Dundun
- Work
- Emergency
- Dirty Wedding
- The Other Man
- Happy Hour
- Steady Hands at Seattle General
- Beverly Home
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