Angels (novel)

Angels
Author	Denis Johnson
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Published	1983
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0060988821

Angels is a 1983 novel by American author Denis Johnson. It was Johnson's first novel; previously, he had published several books of poetry. Alice Hoffman, writing for the New York Times, referred to the novel as "a mixture of poetry and obscenity".^[1] Angels follows two characters – Jamie, a young mother fleeing her abusive husband, and Bill Houston, a restless ex-convict – who encounter one another on an interstate bus trip. Bill Houston also appears in Johnson's novel Tree of Smoke, which won the National Book Award in 2007.^[2]

In 1999, David Foster Wallace included the novel on his list of overlooked American books published after 1960.^[3]

References

^ Hoffman, Alice (2 October 1983). "Slumps and Tailspins". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
^ "Tree of Smoke". Retrieved 2019-06-08.
^ Wallace, David Foster (12 April 1999). "Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels >1960". Salon. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

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[1] Hoffman, Alice (2 October 1983). "Slumps and Tailspins". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

[2] "Tree of Smoke". Retrieved 2019-06-08.

[3] Wallace, David Foster (12 April 1999). "Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels >1960". Salon. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

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