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“Denis Johnson’s seventh novel is his masterpiece and perhaps one of the most powerful novels published in the last several years. As in his other works but here on a larger scale, his characters negotiate a dark, violent world in search of meaning, some kind of salvation. And Johnson takes us with them into the world’s pain and these souls’ anguish in a narrative that carries us along, turning the pages, anxious to see where the story leads. Though the novel is long (over 600 pages), it...”
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Didn’t Like It
“One of the only books I just a gave up on mid-way through. It wasn't getting better and I realized my time is too valuable to struggle through the rest. Understand it's critically aclaimed and all that, but I never got it.”
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