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Denis Johnson

Forfatterbiografi

Denis Johnson (1949–2017) var en amerikansk forfatter, kendt for at bevæge sig mellem roman, novelle, poesi og teater. Han blev født i München i Vesttyskland som søn af en amerikansk diplomat og voksede op i flere lande, før han vendte tilbage til USA. Johnson blev især bemærket for sin litterære bredde og sin evne til at kombinere et nøgternt blik med stærk fortællende energi, ofte med fokus på krig, skyld, overlevelse og menneskelige brudflader. Som forfatter udgav han en lang række værker, herunder Jesus’ Son, Fiskadoro, Nobody Move og Tree of Smoke. Tree of Smoke vandt National Book Award. Han skrev også romanen The Stars at Noon, som fortsat står som et markant eksempel på hans engagement i både stemning og moralsk kompleksitet, og som senere blev grundlag for filmatiseringen Stars at Noon. I sin samlede produktion spillede Johnson en væsentlig rolle i amerikansk samtidslitteratur, ikke mindst fordi han formåede at bringe tværgenrer og forskellige sproglige register sammen til én sammenhængende litterær stemme.

Bøger af Denis Johnson

'Train Dreams'
'Train Dreams'

Bog | Engelsk

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, NOMINATED FOR FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS - INCLUDING BEST PICTURE An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West,

'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden'
'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden'

Bog | Engelsk

**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018** The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus Son . Written in the same luminous prose, this collection f

'Train Dreams'
'Train Dreams'

Bog | Engelsk

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, NOMINATED FOR FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS - INCLUDING BEST PICTURE An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West,

'Jesus' Son'
'Jesus' Son'

Bog | Engelsk

A young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, spirals through these interlinked stories of grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. In the course of his adventures, he meet

'Train Dreams'
'Train Dreams'

Bog | Engelsk

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist 's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson ( Tree of Smoke ) comes Train Dreams , an epic in miniature, and on

'Angels'
'Angels'

Bog | Engelsk

A dazzling and savage first novel New York Times Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and d

'Jesus' Son'
'Jesus' Son'

Bog | Engelsk

A classic of Twentieth-Century American literature from one of America's greatest writers. 'Intense, vicious, and beautiful... Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer' Mary Gaitskill Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, a

'Seek'
'Seek'

Bog | Engelsk

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels

'Tree of Smoke'
'Tree of Smoke'

Bog | Engelsk

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Tree of Smoke the name given to a psyop that may or may not be hypothetical and may or may not be officially sanctioned is Denis Johnsons most gripping, visionary and ambitious work. Set across south-east

'Fiskadoro'
'Fiskadoro'

Bog | Engelsk

Hailed by the New York Times as wildly ambitious and the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland, ' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, screened St

'Tree of Smoke'
'Tree of Smoke'

Bog | Engelsk

Tree of Smoke - the name given to a 'psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned - is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, a

'The Stars at Noon'
'The Stars at Noon'

Bog | Engelsk

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. - Now the basis for a major motion picture Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion

'The Laughing Monsters'
'The Laughing Monsters'

Bog | Engelsk

In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear. Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment

'Already Dead'
'Already Dead'

Bog | Engelsk

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies i

'Jesus' søn'
'Jesus' søn'

Bog | Dansk

Mellem rus og religion. Jesus søn er en visionær krønike om drømmere, misbrugere og fortabte sjæle. Det er historier, som fortæller om fortvivlende sorg og transcendens, om fortabelse og forløsning. Fortælleren af disse indbyrdes forbundne fortællinger er