Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers addicts and lost souls. These stories tell of spiralling grief and transcendence of rock bottom and redemption of getting lost and found and lost again. The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young unnamed man reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol his mind at once clouded and made brilliantly lucid by these drugs. In the course of his adventures he meets an assortment of people who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners misfits the lost the damned the desperate and the forgotten. Our of their bleak seemingly random lives Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh and devastating beauty.