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Two Plays by Denis Johnson
Harper Perennial
June 2002
On Sale: June 1, 2002
224 pages
ISBN: 0060934409
EAN: 9780060934408
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"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about,"
says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the
center of Denis Johnson's plays, Hellhound on My
Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the
Flames. The character could be speaking for his creator,
because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson's
specialties -- in his critically acclaimed novels, short
stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new
plays. These two works present a dramatized field
guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric
inhabitants of the American West: a sexual-misconduct
investigator who misconducts herself sexually; a renegade
Jehovah's Witness who supports his splinter Jehovean group
by dealing drugs; the Cassandra Brothers and their father
and their grandmother, thrown together at a family
reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah,
California. When Shoppers Carried by Escalators
Into the Flames was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the
Chronicle said, There's an enormous appeal in
Johnson's bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American
West. That appeal derives from the author's perfect
vision of imperfection, embodied with such energy and
courage in these marvelous pieces of theatre.
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