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Jesus' Son Audio Book
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Jesus' Son
Author:
Denis Johnson
Reader: Will Patton
An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town. These tales chronicle a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompassesevery extreme of American culture. "A work of spare beauty and almost religious intensity."—Entertainment Weekly
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Publish Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN: 9781427205711
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Synopsis:
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An acclaimed collection of hallucinatory linked stories about a young heroin addict/alcoholic in a small Midwestern town.
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Author Bio:
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An acclaimed but reclusive poet, essayist, playwright, and novelist, Denis Johnson's writing exists on the fringe of human existence: his language oscillates between brutal and transcendent, his protagonists are drifters, junkies, dreamers, and murderers, and his nonfiction work focuses on militias, outlaws, and countries in the throes of war. Born in Munich, Germany, Johnson spent much of his childhood in Tokyo and the Philippines before moving back to the United States. In his essays he often alludes to a youth spent traveling the country, addicted to alcohol and drugs. After attending the Masters writing program at the University of Iowa, Johnson began to publish his poetry. In 1983 his first novel, ANGELS, about two brothers who commit a botched bank robbery, was described by Alice Hoffman in the New York Times Book Review as "A dazzling and savage first novel." Still, Johnson remained out of the literary limelight until JESUS' SON (1992), a brief and fragmented collection of interconnected short stories about love and drug abuse that was made into a feature film. In 2007, his epic Vietnam novel, 20-odd-years in the making, won The National Book Award. Johnson could not accept the prize in person as he was in Iraq reporting on the war.
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