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Original Title:	Jesus' Son: Stories
ISBN:	0060975776 (ISBN13: 9780060975777)
Edition Language:	English

Jesus' Son Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Title	:	Jesus' Son
Author	:	Denis Johnson
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	December 15th 1993 by Harper Perennial (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Contemporary. Literature. Thriller. American. Literary Fiction

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Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange world brought uncomfortably close to our own, the stories in Jesus' Son offer a disturbing yet eerily beautiful portrayal of American loneliness and hope. Contains: 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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And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a persons life on this earth. I dont mean that we all end up dead, thats not the great pity. I mean that he couldnt tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldnt tell him what was real..Imagine, youre driving at sunset on the highway, the speedometer hits 80,90,100. You have a cigarette in your left hand, the tip burns bright as you ash it out the window. Youre surrounded by five friends, two cramped into the front seat the other three in the

Junk-sick, Broke and Completely Alone, in a Land of Bad Intentions I've gone through three copies of Jesus Son, reading it like a prayer-book, though its nothing of the kind. There's a sadness living in every sentence, and it doesn't really have any suggestions for better living, beyond a painfully obvious cautionary tale. Heroin=bad. The cautionary tale, however, is one interpreted by the reader. It's the best kind of dangerous, like a manual for poetic self-immolation, on burning yourself

Whats the deal with great writers and drugs and/or alcohol? It seems most of my favorite writers start out with amazing talent and then slowly fizzle out under the weight of some form of substance abuse. Patrick Hamilton, Carson McCullers, Richard Yates... (add your own).In my book, Denis Johnson is turning out to be an inverse exception to the rule. For most of his twenties, Johnson was addicted to drugs and alcohol but he quit drinking alcohol in 1978 and quit recreational drugs in 1983 and

Denis Johnson took the fringe sensibilities of The Beats, added his own raw poetic touches, nicked a line from Lou Reed for the title, and ended up with an intensely unsettling collection of stories that prefigured to a T the drug classic Trainspotting. You may wonder at first if the unnamed narrator of these accounts could really be such an uncaring cad. Well, as a bottom line, maybe so. But the thoughts of murder, the thieving, and the ultra-callous disregard for fellow man were in large part

Last Exit to Brooklyn in the boonies is what Jesus' Son feels like. It's an interconnected series of short stories starring the very down and very out in rural Iowa as they stagger through young adulthood. Its protagonist's name is Fuckhead, so there you go.There's this great confused quality that's familiar to me from my own experimental days, which were much less dire (not at all dire) but, like, in one story they're all having a sendoff party for a friend who's going to jail, and midway

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ And when it comes to fiction a bigly chunk of my people are drug addicts . . . . Jesus Son has been on my TBR for an age due to the fact that it is considered a modern classic and has appeared on list after list of must reads that I cant ever stop myself from looking at, despite having 11,000,000,000,000 books already waiting for me to get to them. I cant guarantee everyone will love this one due to the aforementioned drug addict