![]() ![]() No American novelist since William Burroughs has so flagrantly risked 'insensitivity' in an effort to depict the pathology of addiction. ![]() 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 “ 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. Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer.” - Mary Gaitskill “Intense, vicious, and beautiful, these stories are fraught with a cutting wit purposefully juxtaposed against the too-big sentimentality of a drunk. Why you should read Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson The main character is an alcoholic, drug addict named Fuckhead, and if that puts you off from the book and no amount of brilliant prose work can convince you otherwise (in my opinion the only person to top Nabokov) then I guess you really don't need to read this book. ![]() “A work of spare beauty and almost religious intensity.” - Entertainment Weekly “Reading these stories is like reading ticker tape from the subconscious.” - The Nation ![]()
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