- Taschenbuch: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: HarperPerennial; Auflage: Reprint (Dezember 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060975776
- ISBN-13: 978-0060975777
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,7 x 0,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (28 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 313.719 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The unnamed narrator in Jesus' Son lives through a car wreck and a heroin overdose. Is he blessed? He cheats, lies, steals--but possesses a child's (or a mystic's) uncanny way of expressing the bare essence of things around him. In its own strange and luminous way, this linked collection of short fiction does the same. The stories follow characters who are seemingly marginalized beyond hope, drifting through a narcotic haze of ennui, failed relationships, and petty crime. In "Dundun" the narrator decides to take a shooting victim to the hospital, though not for the usual reasons: "I wanted to be the one who saw it through and got McInnes to the doctor without a wreck. People would talk about it, and I hoped I would be liked." Later he takes his own pathetic stab at violence in "The Other Man," attempting to avenge a drug rip-off but succeeding only at terrorizing an innocent family. Each meandering story--some utterly lacking in the usual elements of plot, including a beginning and an end--nonetheless demands compulsive reading, with Denis Johnson's first calling as a poet apparent in the off-kilter beauty of his prose. Open to any page and gems spill forth: "I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside that we'd have an accident in the storm."
The most successful stories in the collection offer moments of startling clarity. In "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," for instance, the narrator feels most alive while in the presence of another's loss: "Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead.... What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere." In "Work," while "salvaging" copper wire from a flooded house to fund their habits, the narrator and an acquaintance stop to watch the nearly unfathomable sight of a beautiful, naked woman paragliding up the river. Later the narrator learns that the house once belonged to his down-and-out accomplice and that the woman is his estranged wife. "As nearly as I could tell, I'd wandered into some sort of dream that Wayne was having about his wife, and his house," he reasons. Such is the experience for the reader. More Genet than Bukowski, Denis Johnson lures us into a misfit soul's dream from which he can't awake. --Langdon Cook
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Set in the Midwest and West, these aggressively grim stories are linked by a common narrator--a young, nameless substance abuser of unspecified background and education. Like the other marginal and directionless individuals who populate these tales, he is locked into a downward spiral of booze, drugs, and petty crime, the squalor of his life emblematic of a more profound spiritual malaise. The best pieces--like "Beverly Home," which concerns a recovering addict who spies on a Mennonite couple through their bedroom window, and "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," which is exactly what the title implies--balance longing with despair, revealing the yearning for a kind of meaning ultimately lost to these lives. Johnson writes with hallucinatory brilliance, giving these stories a nightmarish edge. Bleak and disturbing, they are not for the faint-hearted.
- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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i actually read JESUS' SON after finishing Johnson's newest book THE NAME OF THE WORLD. i was instantly enthralled in the world that he presented- not too different from the world the beats presented years ago. i must admit that at times i had difficulty following the stories, but it really didn't bother me too much. the stories are so incredible yet so real- quite a task to accomplish..
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Denis Johnson did not let me put this collection of stories down. I myself being far from a normal reader was enthralled by this book. After seeing the film I knew that I had to make this purchase, and I am far from let down. The whimsical dialogue, and the poetic tangents between story points make this book. One should not pass this one up. Denis sums up American life, which the everyday man knows. Sweet tales that frightened me and drew me closer to the characters soul.
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Easily the best collection of Short Stories I have every read. Denis Johnson writes with an intensity, sparseness, and fearlessness that is unmatched in American Fiction. These stories revolve around a degenerate cast of characters wallowing through the drug culture of the late 20th century -- BUT the spirituality contained therein ultimately is life confirming and serene . . . without ever being preachy. A book that will keep you alive . . .
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It begins and ends here.
If you, like me, are tired of the predictable, unchallenging and sedative nature of most popular literature then I strongly encourage you to find and read "Jesus's Son". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Mai 2000 von Chris Parker
The most powerful short story collection I've read
These are stories you read and xerox and send off to friends, breaking all sorts of copyright laws, staying up way too late, reading and reading and then thinking, wait, they got... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. April 2000 von David Benioff
A wonderful new voice in short fiction
If you're a fan of Johnson's manic, drug-fueled poetry, you know that he leans toward the comically surreal. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. April 2000 von Voice of Chunk
Generally brilliant, if slightly imperfect.
A loosely connected collection of stories about a drugged-out low-life and his buddies, "Jesus' Son" is not the kind of book I usually read myself to sleep with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. April 2000 von "elljay"
He can write
At the end of almost every story, you are bound to be shaking your head at what just happened, and wonder how you got there from where you started. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. März 2000 von Igotthewheel
A masterpiece
Denis Johnson is absolutely wonderful. The way he describes the smallest thing such as a shy smile makes me want to run for a highlighter to underline it. My book is really ruined. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Dezember 1999 von Renton
This book. . .
I think I've bought this book about five times since 1994. Every friend I've loaned it to has failed to return it! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
A Modern American Masterpiece
Reading this book, one experiences the shock of recognition that comes with any great piece of literature. It changed the way we thought about and understood fiction. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Excellent
Denis Johnson's prose is very similar to that of Hunter S. Thompson. His short stories are clear in a way that only psychedellia can be. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Life as seen through many of our eyes!
Thank you for allowing me to visit with you. This book of life you shared helps in the filling of that large empty hole we all carry with us. Jean Andre Vallery
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 1999 von JeanVallery@BicycleMessenger.com
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