Summary
‘A marvellous book, beautifully written and constantly entertaining-. He is a wonderful storyteller’ Washington Post
‘Daring and provocative… Startlingly original’ New York Times
The nuclear holocaust has been and gone, and now everything is different. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099440840 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099440849 |
| Author: | Denis Johnson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Wildly ambitious… Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling
Wildly ambitious… Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling * New York Times *
A leap of the imagination… stunningly delivered * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
Haunting…an eerie and powerful visionary novel * Boston Globe *
About The Author
Denis Johnson
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.
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