Angels
by:
Denis Johnson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394532257 (0394532252)
Publish date: August 12th 1983
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 209
Edition language: English
Denis Johnson made his name as a poet, a fact which shed a lot of light on my reading here. The book is beautifully written. Really, the writing is just wonderful and carries you through a lot of other elements that just did not quite come together for me. His descriptions are beautiful and hyper-fo...
This is the kind of book Charles Bukowski wished he could write but never had the sentence-level talent to pull off. At least, that's what I thought when I was about half way through. Then this book takes a sudden turn into insanity. Which is both good and bad. In the final third of the book, Johnso...