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Description

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.

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Memorable Quotes

  • “Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.”
    Billy

First Sentence

A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping... A Cherokee filled with bourbon... A VW no more than a bubble of hashish fumes, captained by a college student...

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  1. Denis Johnson (Author)
 

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