ChadGayle reviewed Jesus' son by Denis Johnson
Review of "Jesus' son" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
If only I'd picked up Jesus' Son instead of Fiskadoro all those years ago.
OMFG
Paperback, 176 pages
English language
Published 1992 by Harper Perennial.
Jesus' Son
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-097577-7
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4 stars
(22 reviews)
American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.
Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. The insights and careening energy in Jesus' Son have earned the book a place of its own among the classics of twentieth-century American literature. It was adapted into a critically-praised film in 1999.
DaveNash3 reviewed Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Review of "Jesus' Son" on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Nobody can write like Denis Johnson. That's the best take away from this - you have to write like yourself and a lot of this is semi-autobiographical. I can see Denis in rehab asking a mad with a bullethole in his face for more stories. The fact that a lot of writers or people who think they are worship at Johnson's altar - shouldn't deter you from reading it. These stories read very fast because they are short and Johnson writes so smoothly.
"When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from …
Nobody can write like Denis Johnson. That's the best take away from this - you have to write like yourself and a lot of this is semi-autobiographical. I can see Denis in rehab asking a mad with a bullethole in his face for more stories. The fact that a lot of writers or people who think they are worship at Johnson's altar - shouldn't deter you from reading it. These stories read very fast because they are short and Johnson writes so smoothly.
"When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it. She wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother"
"Michelle left me permanently for a man called John Smith, or shall I say that during one of the times we were parted she took up with a man and shortly after that had some bad luck and died? Anyway, she never came back to me. "
loppear reviewed Jesus' son by Denis Johnson
Review of "Jesus' son" on Goodreads
3 stars
Intimate dark narcotics-addled stories of violent nothing, set in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
