Jesus’ Son (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Denis Johnson
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short stones
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Midwest, Spiritual life or spirituality, Substance abuse, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Catholics or Catholic Church, Sales personnel
It is no accident that Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son opens with a bloody, fatal car wreck on a rainy two-lane highway under a spread of “Midwestern clouds like great grey brains.” This incident from “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” sets the stage and the tone for what follows: a series of head-on collisions that Johnson’s narrator—an on-the-run junkie—encounters over the course of eleven electrifying stories. Johnson hurls his readers on a shotgunned journey through emergency rooms and dope dens, detoxification wards and rest homes for those whose “impossible...
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