Jesus' Son: 3 (Picador Modern Classics) - Softcover

Johnson, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031242874X ISBN 13: 9780312428747

Verlag: PICADOR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Johnson Denis

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Críticas:

"Reading these stories is like reading ticker tape from the subconscious." --The Nation

"A work of spare beauty and almost religious intensity." --Entertainment Weekly

"Intense, vicious, and beautiful, these stories are fraught with a cutting wit purposefully juxtaposed against the too-big sentimentality of a drunk. Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer." --Mary Gaitskill

"[Dennis Johnson is] a synthesizer of profoundly American voices: we can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world. And behind all these you sense something else: a visionary angel, a Kerouac, or, better yet, a Blake, who has seen his demon and yearned for God and forged a language to contain them both." --Newsday

"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

Reseña del editor:

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.

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• Verlag: PICADOR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 031242874X
• ISBN 13: 9780312428747
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 133