- Fiction, Death row inmates in fiction, Bus travel, Drifters
Angels puts Jamie Mays--a runaway wife toting along two kids--and Bill Houston--ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con--on a Greyhound bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life.
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Relentless, bleak, overwhelming and contemporary.
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- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780701127770
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“In the Oakland Greyhound all the people were dwarfs, and they pushed and shoved to get on the bus, even cutting in ahead of the two nuns, who were there first.”
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