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Jesus' Son (short story collection)
''Jesus' Son'' is a collection of linked short stories by American author Denis Johnson.
==Subject matter==
The book takes its title from the Velvet Underground song "Heroin",〔http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-17892-5〕 and concerns the exploits of several addicts living in rural America, as they engage in drug use, petty crime and even murder. The stories are linked by shared locations (such as a dive bar in small-town Iowa) and repeated imagery. They are all narrated by troubled young men, who may in fact be a single troubled young man.
The book is famous for its seemingly chaotic narrative style, which mirrors the mental states of its narrators. "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" features a mentally addled narrator who claims to have extra-sensory perception, which allows him to experience in the present a deadly car crash that won't happen until much later in the narrative. Despite his foreknowledge, he enters the car he claims to know will inevitably crash. "Emergency" is narrated from the perspective of a hospital janitor driving around under the influence of hallucinogens as he accidentally kills several baby rabbits and helps to save a man who's been stabbed in the eye by his wife. The book ends on a more hopeful note as the final narrator enters a recovery program and begins to hold down a stable job.
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