Full name: Resuscitation of a Hanged Man: A Novel

Author: Denis Johnson Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250015969 1250015960

Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, comes to Provincetown on Cape Cod to take a job as a disc jockey-cum-private detective. Provincetown is a last outpost of civilization, an end of the earth, a resort town emptied by autumn, where many of those who wear skirts are not women and many of the women do not love men. On his first day there, English encounters a beautiful young woman at Mass and falls desperately in love with her, but Leanna turns out to be gay; and English's first assignment as a detective, a search for the elusive artist Gerald Twinbrook, is equally frustrating. As autumn turns to winter and Leonard's anguish mounts, his desperate quests - for Twinbrook, for love, for redemption - take on an increasingly apocalyptic coloring. Similar books: Romance by Joseph Conrad The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt Tunc by Lawrence Durrell In Between Days by Andrew Porter When She Was Good by Philip Roth A New Life by Bernard Malamud Warlock by Jim Harrison Reinhart in Love by Thomas Berger Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes Goodbye, Janette by Harold Robbins A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park by Henry Roth Toward the End of Time by John Updike The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave An Error of Judgement by Pamela Hansford Johnson Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes Angels by Denis Johnson The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery