These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again. He describes how he and each of these people consumed alcohol and a variety of drugs, and suggests that somehow, he knew about the next car to pick him. Denis Johnsons 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.

Do you think the book reads like a collection of short stories from. Claim: A father was faced with the horrifying choice between saving his sons life at the cost of many, or watching his son die as his inaction saves others. The story begins with a description of the three people the narrator rode with at the beginning of his journey - a salesman, a Cherokee Indian, and a college student. What central theme, memory, or preoccupation connects all of the stories of Jesuss 2. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson, First Edition Jesus Son Jesus Son: Stories Jesus Son: Stories Jesus Son: Stories Jesus Son Jesus Son Jesus Son Jesus. While the individual stories vividly portray a series of intense encounters with death, desire and despair, the collection as a whole explores (stylistically, linguistically, and narratively) themes relating to the need for and value of human contact, the tension between hopelessness and compassion, and the pervasive effect of drug use and addiction. This collection of (sometimes very) short stories explores the drug-influenced (induced?) experiences of their anonymous narrator, a young man living and surviving the turbulent early-1970s in America. When he first began what became 'Jesus Son,' his new collection of short stories, he wanted to try writing strictly from memory: 'Originally, in fact, I wasnt even going to publish it.

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