Denis Johnson: 35 books

Book cover of Sueños de trenes
by Denis Johnson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Sueños de trenes es una epopeya en miniatura, una de las obras más conmovedoras y evocativas en la ya larga carrera del escritor norteamericano Denis Johnson Robert Grainer es un jornalero del Oeste americano en los albores del siglo XX, que, tras ser golpeado por una terrible tragedia, lucha...
Book cover of De gulheid van de zeemeermin
by Denis Johnson
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Vijfentwintig jaar geleden verscheen van Denis Johnson Jezus' zoon, dat door de pers met enige regelmaat wordt genoemd als de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste verhalenbundel van een hele generatie. Vlak voor zijn dood in mei 2017 rondde Johnson de verhalen in De gulheid van de zeemeermin af. Na het...
Book cover of Train Dreams

Train Dreams

A Novella

by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the...
Book cover of Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke

A Novel

by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally...
Book cover of The Laughing Monsters
by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years'...
Book cover of Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son

Stories

by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

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 twentieth-century American literature.
Book cover of Already Dead

Already Dead

A California Gothic

by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden...
Book cover of Nobody Move

Nobody Move

A Novel

by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over...
Book cover of Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
by Denis Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1991

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is Denis Johnson's most fully realized novel to date, an enthralling and shattering reading experience, which probes the mysteries of faith, hope and love.
Book cover of De lachende monsters
by Denis Johnson
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 14, 2014

Ronald Nair noemt zichzelf Deens, maar reist met een Amerikaans paspoort. Na ruim tien jaar afwezigheid keert hij terug naar Freetown, de hoofdstad van Sierra Leone. Daar heeft hij afgesproken met zijn vriend Michael Adriko, samen met wie hij ooit grof geld verdiende tijdens de burgeroorlog. Adriko...
Book cover of Accidente durante el autostop (Flash Relatos)
by Denis Johnson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2014

Bajo una lluvia torrencial un yonqui tiene un oscuro presentimiento cuando un viejo Oldsmobile se detiene a su lado en la carretera. Años después, confinado en el ala de desintoxicación de un hospital, recuerda lo sucedido aquel día... «Me dolía la mandíbula. Conocía a cada gota de...
Book cover of Jezus' zoon
by Denis Johnson
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 7, 2016

De verteller in Jezus’ zoon is een jonge, naamloze man die door zijn verslaving aan heroïne en alcohol zowel verward als lucide overkomt. Tijdens zijn avonturen ontmoet hij overal mensen die even vervreemd en in de war zijn als hij: zondaars, zonderlingen, verstotenen en verdoemden. Uit hun hopeloze...
Book cover of Die Großzügigkeit der Meerjungfrau

Die Großzügigkeit der Meerjungfrau

und andere Erzählungen

by Denis Johnson
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Einer der größten Stilisten Amerikas ist tot. Denis Johnson, berühmt geworden durch seinen Erzählungsband "Jesus' Sohn" (1992) und den mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichneten Vietnamkriegsroman "Ein gerader Rauch" (2007), hinterlässt ein letztes fulminantes Buch – fünf...
Book cover of Jesus' Sohn
by Denis Johnson
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2019

Frei nach Lou Reeds "When I'm rushing on my run, and I feel like Jesus' son" muss dieses Buch gelesen werden. Denis Johnsons Storysammlung "Jesus' Son", 1992 in den USA erschienen, berichtet von Verwirrung, Leiden und Heilung eines jungen Drifters und hat den Autor zur Legende...
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