Jesus' Son

Name: Jesus' Son
Author: Denis Johnson

by Denis Johnson

Fragmented stories of drug addicts seeking transcendence and meaning

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Denis Johnson

American novelist and poet whose Jesus' Son is among the most celebrated story collections in American literature. Tree of Smoke won the National Book Award. His hallucinatory fiction of addiction, war, and spiritual crisis is unlike anything else in American letters.

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