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This is a classic collection about the lost souls of American society who have not only failed to realise the American Dream but have been wrecked by it. Outcasts, drug addicts, prostitutes, criminals, the desolate and the damned. These are stories told from the inside rather than with an anthropological observation; their narrators share the experience of those who live by different rules or no rules at all, their narrative frameworks are skewed towards the psychotic and surreal. But the language is what makes this collection exceptional. With the brilliance and sharpness of a diamond, Johnson’s prose tears his characters and narratives apart and puts them together again into something like poetry.
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiralling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, his mind at once clouded and made brilliantly lucid by these drugs. In the course of his adventures, he meets an assortment of people, who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners, misfits, the lost, the damned, the desperate and the forgotten. Our of their bleak, seemingly…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
London is a major player in this novel which explores the boundaries and complications of communication and relationships in terms of gender, sexuality, generation and class. Insightful and compelling.
'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES
'Electric and intimate' Guardian
'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful' Russell T Davies
'Intoxicating' Irish Times
This city stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It's June 2019 in London and everyone has converged on the parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.
Everyone but Maggie. She's 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with…
