Angels by Denis Johnson. 1989 Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover illustration by Chris Moore.
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson. 1986 Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover illustration by Rick Lovell.
The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson. 1988 Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover illustration by Rick Lovell.
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How are those latter two books? Any good? (So far I’ve read and loved JS, Angels, Nobody Move, & Train Dreams.)
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I don’t think THE STARS AT NOON is essential, but I read it years ago. Didn’t leave the same impression on my as TREE OF SMOKE, ANGELS, or TRAIN DREAMS (and obv JESUS’ SON). FISKADORO has a fascinating milieu, and I pulled it out in part to scan through it (for some depictions of Florida/sorta Florida, for something else). It’s a post-apocalypse novel.
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Oher good covers for Angels:
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Re: Angels
Is Jamie Mays an African-American woman or white-American woman? That King Penguin cover makes its assumption. If Jamie is a woman of color, the fact Bill’s family makes zero comment about it is unrealistic. I believe Jamie is living in Oakland, CA, but from… West-Virginia?
And, does it matter? Her journey is universal.
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Hmmm…hadn’t thought about it but I suppose I imagined her as white—can’t recall any descriptor.
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I’m doing research on Denis Johnson’s use of Higher Power in his novels and if you have any research material that could help, I would appreciate it. Email me: paulrinn@yahoo.com
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Or even a blog site or anything devoted to analyzing Denis Johnson’s writing. He is a God to me. His writing is like a religious experience for me, and I want to dive into everything there is about him (I have all his novels and poetry, and I’ve ordered Seek). I want to make it out to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin sometime; that’s where his written records are kept.
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