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.
Jamie verlässt mit ihren beiden Kindern ihren untreuen Mann. Doch schon als sie den Bus besteigt, der sie weit fortbringen soll, weiß sie, dass es eine sinnlose Flucht ist, denn sie hat kein Ziel, keine Hoffnung. Auf der Fahrt begegnet ihr Verlierer Bill, der auf dem Weg zu seiner Familie nach Phoenix ist und dem sie sich anschließt. Diese Entscheidung wird ihn das Leben kosten und sie um den Verstand bringen.
'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
Johnson succeeds so well as to make one eager for more John Sutherland London Review of Books
Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel
Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and
Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.
Über den Autor
Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.
Klappentext
Noir fiction telling the story of two born losers travelling together through an alternative American dream.
