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Author: Denis Johnson
First Published: 1997
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1990-1991
Setting: Northern California
Principal Characters: Nelson Fairchild, Jr., Nelson Fairchild, Sr., Winona Fairchild, Melissa, Carl Van Ness, Harry Lally, Tony Thompson, John Navarro
Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction, Philosophical realism
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Murder or homicide, Religion, Antiheroes, California, West, U.S., Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Drinking or drunkenness, Afterlife, Fog, Ocean
Locales: California

Denis Johnson’s previous novel, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1990), was set on the “sandy outskirts of the last town in America,” as far east as one can go without walking and falling off into water. That “last town” was Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the novel itself—as the title suggests—took readers inside the world of a man who had come back from the dead, who had, in a sense, been resurrected after having made an attempt to put an end to his own life. In his follow-up book, the collection of stories entitled Jesus’ Son (1993), Johnson turned his...

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