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Original Title:	Angels
ISBN:	0099440830 (ISBN13: 9780099440833)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jamie Mays and Bill Houston
Literary Awards:	Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1984)

Angels

Denis Johnson

Paperback | Pages: 209 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 5044 Users | 317 Reviews

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Title	:	Angels
Author	:	Denis Johnson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2003 by Vintage (first published August 12th 1983)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Novels. Suspense. Mystery. Drama

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‘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 decide to team up.

So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards, and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death.

From the author of Tree of Smoke , winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

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Ratings: 3.73 From 5044 Users | 317 Reviews

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Jamie and her kids should have just stayed in Oakland.Denis Johnson writes some really dark stuff, even for noir. I tried to care about Jamie through her 5 year old Miranda and baby Ellen...but aside from one incredibly horrible interlude in Chicago, I could not connect with her. Some authors can write from the perspective of or about a character of the opposite gender, but sadly, Denis Johnson isn't one of them. At least for me.I do know that he had struggles early in life - in his mid teens -

This was Johnsons debut novel and its well written and powerful. In Johnsons short stories, the characters are often those who live on the edge of society. Junkies, alcoholics, and petty criminals populate these stories and Johnson chronicles their lives of quiet desperation with sympathy and insight. In Angels, Johnson again focuses on people living on the margins and while its far from an uplifting book, his characters come alive in all their flawed humanity. In the book, Jaime Mays, a woman

First, an opening number: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq344k...*****Trying to forget your past is a futile as trying to dodge the rain drops when it goes from a drizzle to a downpour. Unexpectedly, the sky will just open up and you're fucked. Im not going to lie, this book (the first half anyway) brought back an awful lot of unwanted memories for me.What is it that protected me from turning into one of these sad sonsabitches? I grew up piss poor surrounded by a bunch of degenerates, why am I

Bill Houston was experimenting with his butane lighter, holding it upside down and trying to keep it lit. The gas wants to go up, he explained to her, but then it has to go down before it can go up. It dont know what to do.Like so much fluid in a cheap plastic Bic, our lives flow along paths equally perplexing and predictable. We dont know what to do either, but to whatever depths we sink and however high we rise, most of it can probably be chalked up to circumstance. Wherever we end up and

The last chapter is a hard one. The characters are no "angels" and they continue down a slippery slope at a very rapid pace. This is not a story of redemption. I can only recommend to folks who don't mind gritty and unsavory characters. This book has multiple characters who all think they are leaving something horrible for something better but it's in direct contrast to this situation. They are self destructive and no one is stopping another from poor decisions. They encourage this behavior.

This book has been on my to-read list for about a decade. Year after year it got pushed back and forgotten and now finally, finally, I have entered the world of Denis Johnson. This is a quick read, I read it over two days. We start of with Jamie, a runnaway mother with two small children on a greyhound bus who despite being done with men hooks up with Bill Houston on the bus and together they journey down into the pits of life drug use, alcohol, rape, robbery, insanity, murder, execution.