A handy pocket guide to the charms of Montreal, a city combining old-European charm with a modern metropolis, offers personalized itineraries and information for both Francophiles and Anglophiles on events and sights in the city and surrounding countryside. Original.

Ten stories narrated by a young recovering alcoholic, whose dependency has led him to crime, cruelty, and loss in the Midwest, depict the disparity of emotions that constitute the American experience

A passionate young man recovering from a suicide attempt moves into a homosexual community to take a job as a disk jockey-private detective, and falls in love with a gay woman

Product Description: Un jugador compulsivo que debe dinero a las personas equivocadas, un matón encargado de cobrar la pasta y darle una lección, una preciosidad en apuros que ahoga sus penas en tequila sunrise, dos millones de dólares y una persecución frenética por las llanuras del valle central de California...read more

The poems collected in The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly demonstrate anew the rare incantatory power and stylistic virtuosity of Johnson's work. As a writer, he looks away from nothing in experience, and transforms the stuff of everyday life into something vibrant, wonderful, and strange. These are poems of grief and regret, of nightmare and acceptance, of redemption and the possibility of grace. They present a vision of an American landscape at once unique and startling, terrifying and true.

In a haunting, darkly comic novel, a professor at a small Midwestern college, mourning the accidental deaths of his wife and child, discovers that his grief has both transformed and enlarged his life

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

Product Description: From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2...read more

Chronicles the odyssey of two losers--Jamie, mother of two young children, fleeing her unfaithful husband and the world by downing bottles of barbituates, and Bill Houston, a professional thief looking for a job--who find each other as they lose everything. Reprint.

A provocative collection of journalism from the novelist and author of Jesus' Son takes readers in search of Christian evangelicals, Ruby Ridge, and the Liberian Civil War in an exploration of the fringes of American thought. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

A would-be drug smuggler from California finds himself on the run from assassins in the hire of an international syndicate

Product Description: ncredible, sensitive and empathetic portraits of one of American Outsider Art's self made myths, Jon Serl. The narrative reveals the humanity of the sitter as well as his uncompromising personality which leaves us spiritually richer, if uncomfortably aware of our mortality.

Product Description: Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman with whom she becomes involved? As the two foreigners become entangled in increasingly sinister plots, Denis Johnson masterfully dramatizes a powerful vision of spiritual bereavement and corruption...read more