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He was in his fifties. He’d wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who’d wasted only a few years.

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

March 9, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is one of my favorite books of all time. It’s one of those books that when I read it, I was blown away by it, told everyone about it, bought copies of it for gifts, and made everyone talk about it. I haven’t read it in a decade and it’s more and more clearly a younger reader’s book — the very quote I took for the header of this post suggests this. There’s a kind of void and fear of being young and being […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Denis Johnson, jesus' son

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:133 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: Denis Johnson, jesus' son ·
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