Car Crash While Hitchhiking (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Denis Johnson
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: A highway in Missouri
- Principal Characters: The narrator, A salesperson, Janice
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Roads, streets, or highways, 1980’s, Substance abuse, Accidents, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Infants, Missouri, Sales personnel, Sleep, Luck or misfortune, Survival
- Locales: Missouri
The Story
“Car Crash While Hitchhiking” is the first story in Jesus’ Son (1992), an interrelated collection of short stories that traces the progress of a young man from drug addiction to recovery. Told in the first person by a seemingly clairvoyant narrator who claims that he can perceive future events, the story jumps around in time. The bulk of the story is devoted to a description of an automobile accident and its aftermath.
In chronological order, the events of the story are as follows. The hitchhiking narrator is picked up by a Cherokee, a salesperson,...
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