Jesus' Son
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by Denis Johnson
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“@VittasNick Awesome! That makes me really happy, Nick. Jesus' Son is probably my favorite book in the world. | There was a movie about it and it's a beautiful collection of short stories about this total drug addict.”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Drug Addiction, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentiethcentury American literat...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Drug Addiction, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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James Altucher
“@VittasNick Awesome! That makes me really happy, Nick. Jesus' Son is probably my favorite book in the world. | There was a movie about it and it's a beautiful collection of short stories about this total drug addict.”
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