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Denis Johnson
Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he…
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This is about two men who meet on a Greyhound bus heading East from California. They both have a little money to burn so they decide to do it together…
**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’…
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A dark, indelible epic about the other side of the American Dream
An epic miniature of one man’s life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.
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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…
A classic of Twentieth-Century American Literature from one of America’s greatest living writers.
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Tayeb Salih
The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led…
Perfection is not the basis of what I’m talking about, says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson’s plays, Hellhound on My Trail and…
Features a cast of characters - faith healers, pimps, strippers, actual demons - converges, with unexpected hilarity, as Bess Cassandra awaits execution for the murder of her infant daughter. This…
A fast and furious new novel from an award-winning author
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But on this new level - espionage, state secrets, treason - their loyalties will be tested to the limit. This is a brutal journey through a land abandoned by the…
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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…
In this elegant and incisively observed book, Johnson, author of Jesus’ Son , tells the story of a soul-dead academic who makes unexpected contact with ahost of characters in his…
Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things…
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
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From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. The work salutes the American crime novel, but with a…
In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard English follows a vague vision of redemption, and an even vaguer offer of employment to a Cape Cod resort populated…
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 Angels and Resuscitation of a…
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…
A collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, Jesus’ Son is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of…
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A reissuing of National Book Award winner Denis Johnson’s first two collections of poems
And they wait - for the Cubans to come, for the Quarantine to be lifted, for the god Quetzalcoatl, the god Bob Marley, the god Jesus to return and build…
This novella was originally published, in slightly different form, in The Paris Review, 2002. –T.p. verso.
'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…
Nelson Fairchild has a thriving marijuana business in California’s lush redwood country. But he may lose land, cash, and crop in a divorce settlement. Needing quick cash, Nelson agreed to…
A reissuing of The Incognito Lounge, poetry by Denis Johnson.
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north…
Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, the author brings together a mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. These thirty stories…
Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. Among his best-known plays are The Sultan’s Dilemma and The Tree Climber . In this volume…
Key selections of Egyptian authors by the world renowned, award-winning translator of Arabic fiction. Ideal introduction to the Arabic short story for anyone studying Arabic.
Denys Johnson-Davies
A selection of the most important works of Egypt’s Nobel literature laureate
Presents the life and works of Denys Johnson-Davies, who was described by the late Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time. With more than twenty-five volumes of…
Audrey St Denys Johnson
Audrey Johnson was an observer and participant in the Victoria arts scene for nearly forty years. As a columnist for the Victoria Times and then the Times-Colonist, she covered the…
From Denis Johnson, the National Book Award-winning author. Ten stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict whose dependencies have led him to petty crime, cruelty, betrayal, and loss.
Leonard Gardner
A vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes.
Richard Dennis Johnson
To collectors of modern military uniforms, Vietnam era tigerstripe combat fatigues have always been a much sought after commodity. The pattern itself, in all of its classic forms, is both…
Tawfiq Hakim
An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous…
The hadith qudsi are the sayings of the Prophet divinely communicated to him. The present collection has been compiled from all the available books of hadith. The forty chosen here…
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story…
Yahya Hakki
Describes individuals who somehow manage to scrape through life’s hardships.
Teresa S Johnson
\“Principles of Denying the Flesh \”
The purpose of this book is to reach churches, ministries, outreach groups, book clubs, study groups and the general public, providing a tool to…
Mohamed El-Bisatie
Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily bread that will stave off starvation. Her husband Zaghloul works on and off at one of the…
Buthaina Al Nasiri
A collection of short stories that focuses on love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it. It reflects the author’s deeply felt nostalgia…
Set in a small village in the Nile Delta, this novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions of a community in which nothing is secret and the past haunts every…
