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American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers. Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that...

Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.

Una gran novela sobre la familia, los lazos que nos unen y las heridas que nos distancian. Juan ha conseguido independizarse lejos de su país cuando se ve obligado a regresar a su pequeño pueblo natal debido a la muerte de su padre. Su intención, tras el entierro, es retomar su vida en Edimburgo cuanto antes, pero su hermana le da una noticia que cambia sus planes para siempre. Así, sin proponérselo, se verá en el mismo lugar del que decidió escapar, al cuidado de una madre a la que apenas conoce y con la que siente que solo tiene una cosa en común: el viejo Renault 4 de la familia.

"Il Natale fa rinascere in me l'idea della porta nera che mi attende" confessa Laura Pariani in questo piccolo libro di grande speranza e insieme malinconia in cui la scrittrice si volta indietro. Sono due i piani e le prospettive che racconta: da un lato "subito mi invade il ricordo degli allegri risvegli dei Natali della mia prima infanzia" tra regali modesti, presepi con la stagnola e le storie del nonno; dall'altro lato ci sono i poveri pellegrini della fine del Seicento al Sacro Monte di Orta dedicato a San Francesco, "per prime le donne, i visi ossuti fasciati in pezzuole nere".

A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. “Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein...

Yet there is one other person who may have known all, Marie Dernanaud, the priest's housekeeper and, some say, his lover. Interweaving the history of France at the turn of the twentieth century, scenes of ancient Judea, and the romantic and religious journey of a spirited and intense heroine, The Priest's Madonna gives Marie a chance to tell her version of what transpired, as well as her own story of belief, doubt, and illicit passions.

Ésta es la tercera vez que Jesusa Palancares regresa a la Tierra, pero nunca había sufrido tanto como en esta reencarnación. Lleva el aire del camposanto en sus ojos desde que muy pequeña perdiera a su madre y soporta una existencia exculpando pecados de vidas previas. Jesusa, tehuana, soldadera, sigue a su padre y después a su hombre en la Revolución y recorre todo el país. Cuando la deja viuda, tendrá que sobrevivir en la capital trabajando donde pueda, pero será al amparo de la espiritualidad donde encuentre su refugio.

Winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature, Preston L. Allen’s Jesus Boy was listed by O, the Oprah Magazine as one of “Ten More Titles to Read Now.” Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is dedicated to God. But when the one he loves marries another man, Elwin gets involved with a much older woman. Soon, his lust will test his devotion - and may alienate him from his congregation.

Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he s sure he's figured a way out: rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in his house. But all he finds is the old man dead and the money, if there was any, already gone.

Una novela tan extraordinaria como la peripecia de sus protagonistas. En el año 2011, el narrador de esta novela y su familia llegaron, de un modo azaroso, a una vivienda casi en ruinas situada en un pequeño pueblo del sur de España. Un acuerdo con el propietario les permitiría hacer uso de ella mientras él encontraba financiación para construir allí unos apartamentos. Era solo cuestión de tiempo que la casa fuera derribada. Sin embargo, durante los años siguientes, pasaron largos periodos en ella, reparándola con sus propias manos, transformándola en un acogedor lugar de encuentro y celebración.

Authors Chuck Palahniuk ( Fight Club), Victor LaValle ( The Devil in Silver), Michael Cunningham ( The Hours), and Jenny Offill ( Dept. of Speculation) celebrate the 25th anniversary of Denis Johnson's contemporary classic short story collection. Jesus' Son chronicles the grief and transcendence of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls; and inspired the film starring Billy Crudup, Holly Hunter, Denis Leary, and Jack Black.