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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Resuscitation of a Hanged Manby Denis Johnson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, moves to the Cape Cod resort of Provincetown to work as a disk jockey cum private detective. On his first day there, he encounters a beautiful young woman and falls desperately in love with her — only to find out she prefers those of her own sex to men. English's first assignment, a search for an elusive artist, proves equally frustrating. As winter lengthens and Leonard's anguish mounts, his desperate quests — for the artist, for love, for redemption — take on an increasingly apocalyptic coloring. Review:"[W]e sympathize with a character who both courts and dreads his destiny....And we admire a writer who weaves a coherent novel out of wild strands....Johnson is a knowing writer...who drops just enough hints of a self-referential tongue in his cheek." David Gates, Newsweek Review:"An utterly brilliant and original talent, a novelist who reminds us just how wonderful fiction can be." Philadelphia Inquirer Review:"A cosmically charged fiction that combines hard-boiled theology and a redeeming wit — the perfect spiritual tonic for tough times." Kirkus Reviews Review:"A classic....The touch of one of the finest American novelists writing today." Los Angeles Times Book Review Review:"Johnson has the capacity to be a rewarding novelist, but the unrelieved air of gloomy disapproval shrouding Resuscitation of a Hanged Man leaves hero and reader alike feeling condemned, without hope of appeal." Roz Kaveney, The Times Literary Supplement Review:"At once hilariously funny and profoundly serious, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is philosophical fiction of the first order and a minor masterpiece of New England local-color literature." Library Journal Review:"One of the best and most compelling novelists in the nation." Elle What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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