Jesus' Son
Ratings43
Average rating4.1
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Ratings43
Average rating4.1
Eleven stories narrated by a young recovering alcoholic, whose dependency has led him to crime, cruelty, and loss in the Midwest, depict the disparity of emotions that constitute the American experience.
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I'm too old and too female for this.
The car crash story was spectacular though.
a collection of short stories.
stories of drifters the ones in motion and the ones stuck in a certain space. best book I've read in a really long time.
Wonderful, vivid tales of a gutter dweller's life aimlessly bounding along while lives (including his own) fall apart around; addiction, theft, violence, infidelity, overdoses and perhaps some salvation are found in Jesus' Son. Johnson unfolds the tales in a spare, first person narrative that drew this reader in as if I was having a conversation with the unsavory Son of the title.
I'd been debating whether or not to read Johnson's new, highly-regarded, but hefty book, Tree of Smoke. This collection of short stories has convinced me to invest the time (and money) to do so.
I don't know how to review this. The stories are engaging and inventive, but if they were any longer, I would have given up on them.
I just found the description I was looking for in someone else's review - disorienting.
