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Denis Johnson
Denis Hale Johnson (born July 1, 1949) is an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. show more



Denis Hale Johnson (born July 1, 1949) is an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Birth date: January 01, 1949
Category:
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
Denis Johnson's Books
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson Train Dreams - Denis Johnson Nobody Move - Denis Johnson Already Dead - Denis Johnson Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, Paul Theroux, Claire Keegan, Lewis Robinson, Lynda Sexson, Daniel Lyons, William Trevor, Denis Johnson, Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Andrea Lee, Raymond Carver Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 - Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, David Gates, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, David Leavitt, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Sherman Alexie, Amy Tan, Stuart Dybek, Denis Johns The Laughing Monsters: A Novel - Denis Johnson Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond - Denis Johnson The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction - Edward P. Jones, John Updike, Edmund White, Annie Proulx, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Gaitskill, Elizabeth McCracken, Lydia Davis, Russell Banks, George Saunders, Tim O'Brien, Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Jhumpa Lah The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 - Dave Eggers, Marjane Satrapi, Rivka Galchen, Anne Gisleson, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Tom Kaczynski, Yannick Murphy, Matthew Power, Olivier Schrauwen, Nick Twemlow, Émile Bravo, Castle Freeman Jr., Eula Biss, Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Franze Angels - Denis Johnson The Name of the World - Denis Johnson Resuscitation of a Hanged Man - Denis Johnson The Stars at Noon - Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories - Denis Johnson McSweeney's #11 - Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates, T.C. Boyle, Denis Johnson, McSweeney's Publishing, Tom Bissell, Stephen Elliott, A.G. Pasquella, Brent Hoff, Daphne Beal, Sean Warren, Samantha Hunt, Robert Olmstead, David Means, Doug Dorst The Granta Book of the American Short St... The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Volume Two - Richard Ford, Eudora Welty, Andre Dubus, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bharati Mukherjee, Stuart Dybek, Barry Hannah, Joy Williams, Robert Olen Butler, Thom Jones, John Cheever, Richard Bausch, Tobias Wolff, Deborah Eisenberg, Ann Beattie, T.C. Boyle, D The Incognito Lounge - Denis Johnson
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Sny o pociągach - Denis Johnson, Tomasz Gałązka
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories - Denis Johnson
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The Laughing Monsters: A Novel - Denis Johnson
The Granta Book of the American Short St... The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Volume Two - Richard Ford, Eudora Welty, Andre Dubus, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Bharati Mukherjee, Stuart Dybek, Barry Hannah, Joy Williams, Robert Olen Butler, Thom Jones, John Cheever, Richard Bausch, Tobias Wolff, Deborah Eisenberg, Ann Beattie, T.C. Boyle, D
Jesus' son - Denis Johnson, Jack Delaney
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 - Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, David Gates, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, David Leavitt, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Sherman Alexie, Amy Tan, Stuart Dybek, Denis Johns
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 - Dave Eggers, Marjane Satrapi, Rivka Galchen, Anne Gisleson, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Tom Kaczynski, Yannick Murphy, Matthew Power, Olivier Schrauwen, Nick Twemlow, Émile Bravo, Castle Freeman Jr., Eula Biss, Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Franze
Train Dreams - Denis Johnson, Bettina Abarbanell
Denis Johnson's readers
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"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 7 years ago
text Well go read the stories and see
“Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.” ― Denis Johnson from The Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson writes in a way that seems so matter-of-fact that the beauty is both shocking and expected all at the same time. Every time I’ve read his work, I chastise myself for...
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(Lisa) Birk's Book Blog
(Lisa) Birk's Book Blog rated it 9 years ago
text Jesus' Son: Heartstopping Fiction
Like Philip Seymour Hoffman in the movie Before the Devil Knows You're Dead but better. Writing in what some reviewers have called "hallucinatory" prose, Johnson loves these tender, broken men (and their women) beyond reasoning.
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Rey's books
Rey's books rated it 11 years ago
text Birthday Stories
A collection of short stories selected by Murakami. Even when all of them are related to birthdays, each one is unique, and they produce different emotions to the reader. I loved this book for this reason, and it was a practical introduction to other authors´ work that I will read later.
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Michael's Book Babble
Michael's Book Babble rated it 11 years ago
text Enjoyably strange
Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son is the strangest collection I have ever read. Even though they're stories, they're connected. The stories are narrated by a junkie, F.H. (not his real name, but in time you'll find out exactly what F.H. stands for). Stories begin and end without warning, almost giving the ...
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Viking2917's books
Viking2917's books rated it 11 years ago
text Nobody Move: A Novel
Good fun. Nowhere as deep as his other works, but good fun and a step up for airplane books.
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