Jesus' Son
Stories
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ISBN10: 0374178933
ISBN13: 9780374178932
Hardcover
176 Pages
$24.00
CA$31.50
Recently adapted for the screen, this now-classic collection of ten stories from the author of Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Angels is narrated by a young man, a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict whose dependencies have led him to petty crime, cruelty, betrayal, and various kinds of loss.
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“Ferocious intensity . . . No American novelist since William Burroughs has so flagrantly risked 'insensitivity' in an effort to depict the pathology of addiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Car Crash While Hitchhiking
A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping ... A Cherokee filled with bourbon ... A VW no more than a bubble of hashish fumes, captained by a college student...
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Denis Johnson
