Angels
by Denis Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394532252
- ISBN 13
- 9780394532257
- Seller
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About This Item
Angels by Denis Johnson. 1983 Knopf, first edition, 209 pages. Johnson was a novelist and poet who garnered acclaim for his short-story collection Jesus's Son and award-winning novel Tree of Smoke. According to New York Times, "[His] novels and short stories about the fallen — junkies, down-and-out travelers, drifters and violent men in the United States and abroad — emerged in ecstatic, hallucinatory and sometimes minimalist prose." Angels was Johnson's first novel. Alice Hoffman wrote in her review for the New York Times: "'Angels' is a terrifying book, a mixture of poetry and obscenity. Some readers may be put off by its melodrama and nearly overwhelming sense of desperation. But whether the characters are conversing with a dark angel or ordering a platter of french fries, they are people who can't be ignored. Mr. Johnson has written a dazzling and savage first novel."
Condition: VG, some shelf wear to the jacket
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- Lightholder Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210
- Title
- Angels
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394532252
- ISBN 13
- 9780394532257
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 209
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Fiction;
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