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Already Dead by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
This novel is a comic tour around the mores and manners of contemporary Californian society. Depicting the collapse of the last American frontier, it presents a group of strange, ghostly and complex figures where the wierdness and richness of their minds is brought to the fore.
Angels by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
'A dazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. So begins a stunning, tragi ...Show more
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
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' New York Times The nuclear holocaust has been and gone, and now everything is different. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wrigh ...Show more
Jesus Son by JOHNSON DENIS
Category: Short Stories
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
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
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
'Think Reservoir Dogs or Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Think Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy' - Lionel Shriver, "Daily Telegraph". Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Trouble is, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to c ...Show more
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
Jimmy Luntz is one of the good guys; he's even in a barbershop chorus (like a quartet, only bigger). Trouble is, Juarez - the man Luntz owes money to - isn't so nice. And when Juarez gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he se ...Show more