Shoppers - by Denis Johnson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, <em>Hellhound on My Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames</em>. The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson's specialties -- in his critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new plays.</p><p>These two works present a dramatized field guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric inhabitants of the American West: a sexual-misconduct investigator who misconducts herself sexually; a renegade Jehovah's Witness who supports his splinter Jehovean group by dealing drugs; the Cassandra Brothers and their father and their grandmother, thrown together at a family reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah, California.</p><p>When <em>Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames </em>was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the <em>Chronicle </em>said, There's an enormous appeal in Johnson's bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American West. That appeal derives from the author's perfect vision of imperfection, embodied with such energy and courage in these marvelous pieces of theatre.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, <em>Hellhound on My Trail</em> and <em>Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames</em>.The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson's specialties -- in his critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new plays. </p>These two works present a dramatized field guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric inhabitants of the American West: a sexual-misconduct investigator who misconducts herself sexually; a renegade Jehovah's Witness who supports his splinter Jehovean group by dealing drugs; the Cassandra Brothers and their father and their grandmother, thrown together at a family reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah, California.</p>When <em>Shoppers Carried by Escalators</em> Into the Flames was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the <em>Chronicle</em> said, <em>There's an enormous appeal in Johnson's bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American West</em>. That appeal derives from the author's perfect vision of imperfection, embodied with such energy and courage in these marvelous pieces of theatre.</p>
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