Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson · 1992
Literary Fiction · ranked #66 in category
A series of linked stories following an unnamed narrator through drugs, violence and accidental encounters in the American Midwest of the 1970s. Johnson's prose is hallucinatory and precise, shot through with dark comedy and unexpected grace — a study of addiction and its specific distortions of time, memory and moral awareness.
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