- Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, general, West (u.s.), fiction
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Prestige, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780413772428
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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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