![]() ![]() ![]() Or like this: "We lay down on a stretch of dusty plywood in the back of the truck with the daylight knocking against our eyelids and the fragrance of alfalfa thickening on our tongues. The plots go like this: A man shaves his roommate in the hospital, the shave-ee having survived being shot three times by two different wives there's one about a hospital orderly mopping a floor that's already clean, and another with a guy out on bail drinking at The Vine (a bar I could see from my apartment window, which once again, is me romanticizing).Īnd, even better, when you read them, the stories might sound like this: "I went out to the farmhouse where Dundun lived to get some pharmaceutical opium." With dialogue that feels like you're getting it verbatim and stripped-down prose, he writes simple, honest stories that have the bigness of great work. ![]() This is the kind of thing that could be done. Throughout the novel, we see the same basic addiction, but spread across multiple characters who each go. The title of the book is a reference to a song called 'Heroin,' and in the context of the song, it means the same thing that Denis Johnson means in his novel. I was living in Iowa City at the time, and this book, for my friends and me, became sort of a young writers' bible. Recently adapted for the screen, this now-classic collection of 10 stories from the author of Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Angels is narrated by a. Addiction and drug abuse is the central theme of this novel, without question. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Jesus' Son Author Denis Johnson ![]()
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