Jesus' Son - (Picador Modern Classics) by Denis Johnson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Ten stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict whose dependencies have led him to petty crime, cruelty, betrayal, and loss.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - <i>Metro <br></i><br>Bought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. - </b><i><b>USA Today </b><br></i><b><br>American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers <p/></b>Denis Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. The insights and careening energy in <i>Jesus' Son</i> have earned the book a place of its own among the classics of twentieth-century American literature. <p/>For more than twenty years, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from Manhattan's Flatiron Building. Our Twentieth Anniversary Modern Classics line pairs iconic books - <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> by Jeffrey Eugenides, <i>Steppenwolf</i> by Herman Hesse, <i>Jesus' Son</i> by Denis Johnson, and <i>Housekeeping</i> by Marilynne Robinson - with a design that's both small enough to fit in your pocket and unique enough to stand out on your bookshelf.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Reading these stories is like reading ticker tape from the subconscious." --<i>The Nation</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Mary Gaitskill</i> <p/>"[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." --<i>Newsday</i> <p/>"Ferocious intensity. . . . No American novelist since William Burroughs has so flagrantly risked 'insensitivity' in an effort to depict the pathology of addiction." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/><i></i>These tiny little titles are pocket-sized, shiny, and gorgeous. Featuring authors like Marilynne Robinson and Jeffery Eugenides, they're the kind of books you'll have to own the entire set of, because they're just that pretty -- and it happens to be lovely that they fit in just about every bag you own. You can't be caught anywhere without a book, of course<i>. </i>-- Julia Seales<i>, Bustle</i> <p/>Our books today are the neatest little things you'll see in the rest of 2015's book-year: a set of Modern Classics from Picador Press, done up in a neat bow! -- <i>Open Letters Monthly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Denis Johnson (1949-2017)</b> is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel <i>Tree of Smoke</i> won the 2007 National Book Award.
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