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Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man."
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jimmy Luntz is one of the good guys; he's even in a barbershop chorus (like a quartet, only bigger). Trouble is, Juarez - the man Luntz owes money to - isn't so nice. And when Juarez gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he se ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short cen ...Show more
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear." (Freetown, Sierra Leone). A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko - maverick, war ...Show more
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this elegant and incisively observed book, Johnson, author of "Jesus' Son", tells the story of a soul-dead academic who makes unexpected contact with a host of characters in his small university town.
The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace? And ...Show more
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Robert Grainer is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century-an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Shipped by train in 1893 unto the woods of the Idaho panhandle, he grows up, works on logging gangs, falls in love, and loses his wife and baby daughter to a particularly p ...Show more
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer, and has been for as long as he can remember. It is the start of the twentieth century and the world is changing at a rapid place. Adrift following the loss of th ...Show more
Train Dreams a Novella by Johnson Denis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A "New York Times" Notable BookAn "Esquire" Best Book of 2011A "New Yorker" Favorite Book of 2011A "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of 2011 Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the A ...Show more
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Tree of Smoke" - the name given to a 'psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned - is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, it ostensibly tells the story of S ...Show more
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