Harper Perennial
May 2002
On Sale: May 1, 2002
Featuring: Jamie Mays; Bill Houston
209 pages ISBN: 0060988827 EAN: 9780060988821 Paperback Add to Wish List
The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis
Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -- a runaway
wife toting along two kids -- and Bill Houston -- ex-Navy
man, ex-husband, ex-con -- on a Greyhound Bus for a dark,
wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad
booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus
stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange,
fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their
tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination
is a last stop marked by stunning violence and
mind-shattering surprise.
Denis Johnson, known for
his portraits of America's dispossessed, sets off literary
pyrotechnics on this highway odyssey, lighting the trek with
wit and a personal metaphysics that defiantly takes on the
world.