Overview :"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's pl... Read More
Overview : The year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was ... Read More
Overview :"A terrifying book, a mixture of poetry and obscenity. . . [the characters] are people who can't be ignored. Mr. Johnson has written a dazzl... Read More
Overview :Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placi... Read More
Overview :A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of SmokeAdriko is an African who styles himself a sold... Read More
Overview :Now the basis for a major motion picture: a literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Aw... Read More
Overview :A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune... Read More
Overview :The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a m... Read More
Overview :The hadith qudsi are the sayings of the Prophet divinely communicated to him. The present collection has been compiled from all the availabl... Read More
Overview :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 J... Read More
Overview :Recently adapted for the screen, this now-classic collection of ten stories from the author of Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Angels is n... Read More