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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Minimal Wear”
- Type
- Short Stories
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780812988635
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812988639
ISBN-13
9780812988635
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237603125
Product Key Features
Book Title
Largesse of the Sea Maiden : Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-027298
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"These four stories rank with Johnson's best work, but the title story, a catalogue of singular moments related by a man who tells us he's passing through life as if it were a masquerade, ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century." -- New York "A posthumous masterpiece . . . With this book, Johnson has only cemented his status as one of his generation's greatest writers. . . . Each story in Largesse is weighted by an astonishing humanity, a generosity of spirit that's evened out by lyrical dissections of time's passage and the mysteries of connection. . . . Here's an author turning toward the past, conjuring up the ghosts of those he's loved and lost, writing of wild experiences with affectionate abandon. Few have linked themselves between the reader and the page so intimately--so cosmically--as he does here." -- Entertainment Weekly "An instant classic." -- Newsday "Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein." -- The New York Times Book Review "Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories, the testament of a writer who lived and worked on unusually close terms with death, until that great mystery finally stole him. . . . [Johnson's] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness. . . . Though these are longer, fuller, rangier stories than the strobing fever dreams of Jesus' Son, they possess the same incredible emotional density. They feel squeezed, to borrow Johnson's phrase, 'in the almighty grip of the truth.'" -- The Wall Street Journal "Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close . . . We're just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world's greatest writers." --NPR "Johnson offers visions and sadness and laughter. But it's the sentences--those adamantine, poetic sentences--that made him one of America's great and lasting writers. It's the sentences that live on." -- The Boston Globe "Johnson's fiction . . . overflows with creative energy, moving from one beauty to another with a mercurial, at times almost chaotic grace. Although his characters are often diminished and winnowed by their struggles with life, the narrative voice that describes their travails gives evidence of an imagination that is nearly boundless in its generosity and abundance." -- Chicago Tribune "Sly, open-ended, and meticulously wise . . . Johnson, in all his work, aimed to locate the hidden, actual face of things. But the new stories build without those miraculous balls of hail, and their truths are necessarily deeper, and more precise. . . . [Johnson] is a writer whose ambitions were in their own way as broad and burgeoning as Dostoyevsky's. He is for all time." --Rachel Kushner, Bookforum "A final gift from a master." -- BOMB Magazine "Denis Johnson's posthumous collection winks from beyond the grave. . . . Johnson told aspiring authors to write as if ink were blood, because it is precious. So are farewells like this. . . . It is a vital addition to Johnson's oeuvre." -- Time, Advance praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden "American literature suffered a serious loss with [Denis] Johnson's death. These final stories underscore what we'll miss. . . . Johnson is best known for his writing about hard-luck cases--alcoholics, thieves, world-weary soldiers. But this final collection ranges up and down the class ladder; for Johnson, a sense of mortality and a struggle to make sense of our lives knew no demographic boundaries." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An instant classic . . . A masterpiece of deep humanity and astonishing prose . . . It's filled with Johnson's unparalleled ability to inject humor, profundity, and beauty--often all three--into the dark and the mundane alike. These characters have been pushed toward the ed≥ through their searches for meaning or clawing just to hold onto life, Johnson is able to articulate what it means to be alive, and to have hope." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Denis Johnson "Denis Johnson was the best American writer of the past twenty-five years." -- New Republic "He was the kind of writer who comes along once in a generation, if that often: a true original, in the same league as Melville and Whitman." -- n+1 "A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century." -- The New York Times "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." --Jonathan Franzen "Nobody wrote with more brutality and mercy, more hilarity and grace. What a genius he was." --Elizabeth McCracken "Our most poetic American short-story writer since Hemingway." --George Saunders "Prose of amazing power and stylishness." --Philip Roth "When Denis Johnson is justly praised for his voice, I always think, just the one? He has an eerie symphony at his command." --Karen Russell "His prose tiptoes a tightrope between peace and calamity." --Anthony Doerr "His lonely spaces and stunned lives have a hair-trigger fascination that is American to the core." --Don DeLillo "Denis Johnson was and is, without question, significant and great." --Michael Cunningham, Advance praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden "American literature suffered a serious loss with [Denis] Johnson's death. These final stories underscore what we'll miss. . . . Johnson is best known for his writing about hard-luck cases--alcoholics, thieves, world-weary soldiers. But this final collection ranges up and down the class ladder; for Johnson, a sense of mortality and a struggle to make sense of our lives knew no demographic boundaries." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An instant classic . . . A masterpiece of deep humanity and astonishing prose . . . It's filled with Johnson's unparalleled ability to inject humor, profundity, and beauty--often all three--into the dark and the mundane alike. These characters have been pushed toward the ed≥ through their searches for meaning or clawing just to hold on to life, Johnson is able to articulate what it means to be alive, and to have hope." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Denis Johnson "Denis Johnson was the best American writer of the past twenty-five years." -- New Republic "He was the kind of writer who comes along once in a generation, if that often: a true original, in the same league as Melville and Whitman." -- n+1 "A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century." -- The New York Times "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." --Jonathan Franzen "He worked at a level different from the rest of us--a true master."-- Zadie Smith "Our most poetic American short-story writer since Hemingway." --George Saunders "Nobody wrote with more brutality and mercy, more hilarity and grace. What a genius he was."-- Elizabeth McCracken "Johnson brought news from the darkest, wildest depths of American life as Mark Twain did in chapters of Huckleberry Finn and Faulkner in a slew of novels. . . . There was no one like him."-- Philip Roth "When Denis Johnson is justly praised for his voice, I always think, just the one? He had an eerie symphony at his command." --Karen Russell "His prose tiptoes a tightrope between peace and calamity." --Anthony Doerr "Denis Johnson was and is and will continue to be one of our strongest writers. His work has an indigenous beat that marks it as unmistakably American."-- Don DeLillo "Everyone who reads Denis Johnson comes away thinking he has spoken directly to some wracked and ragged, yet transcendent, aspect of their own secret heart."-- Louise Erdrich, "A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century." -- The New York Times Book Review "The most essential writer of his generation." -- Los Angeles Times "America's most incandescent novelist." -- Slate "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." --Jonathan Franzen "Prose of amazing power and stylishness." --Philip Roth "When Denis Johnson is justly praised for his voice, I always think, just the one? He has an eerie symphony at his command." --Karen Russell "Infinite fannage." --George Saunders "Great prose, truly great." --David Foster Wallace "Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer." --Mary Gaitskill "His lonely spaces and stunned lives have a hair-trigger fascination that is American to the core." --Don DeLillo "He's not afraid to risk going straight toward the sublime." --Jenny Offill
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air - Chicago Tribune - Newsday - New York - AV Club - Publishers Weekly "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century."-- New York "A posthumous masterpiece."-- Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - NPR - The Boston Globe - New York Public Library - Kirkus Reviews - Bloomberg The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden "An instant classic." -- Newsday "Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein." -- The New York Times Book Review "Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . Johnson's] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness." -- The Wall Street Journal "Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We're just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world's greatest writers." --NPR, Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times * Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air * Chicago Tribune * Newsday * New York * AV Club * Publishers Weekly "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century."-- New York "A posthumous masterpiece."-- Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * NPR * The Boston Globe * New York Public Library * Kirkus Reviews * Bloomberg The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden "An instant classic." -- Newsday "Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein." -- The New York Times Book Review "Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnson's] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness." -- The Wall Street Journal "Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We're just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world's greatest writers." --NPR
LC Classification Number
PS3560.O3745A6 2018
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