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Angels by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -- a runaway wife toting along two kids -- and Bill Houston -- ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con -- on a Greyhound Bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, ...Show more
Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man."
Jesus Son by JOHNSON DENIS
Category: Fiction
An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man."
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
A collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, "Jesus' Son" is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of burnt-out sports stars, hospital waiting rooms, doomed relationships and senseless violence.
Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short cen ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century." --New York ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea MaidenStories by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the lu ...Show more
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
Denis Johnson's "The Laughing Monsters "is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra ...Show more
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
"Many people keep watch. Nobody sees. It takes a great deal to waken their curiosity. NATO, the UN, the UK, the US - poker-faced, softspoken bureaucratic pandemonium. They're mad, they're blind, they're heedless, and not one of them cares, not one of them." Captain Roland Nair has codes, hidden devices ...Show more