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Mr. Magic - County Highway

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By David Samuels Verified, Amanda Fortini, Denis Johnson
| County Highway Verified
The world will burst like an intestine in the sun, the dark turn to granite and the granite to a name, but there will always be somebody riding the bus through these intersections strewn with broken glass among speechless women beating their little ones, always a slow alphabet of rain speaking of drifting and perishing to the air, always these definite jails of light in the sky at the wedding of this clarity and this storm and a woman's turning—her languid flight of hair traveling through...
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‘Train Dreams’ by Denis Johnson

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By Denis Johnson
| Reading Matters
Fiction – Kindle edition; Granta Editions; 121 pages; 2021. Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams is a perfect little nugget of a book. In just 120 pages, it tells the story of a man living on the American frontier from the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s. First published in 2011, it is essentially a Bildungsroman compressed into novella form, where years can pass in the space of a few pages. The story follows Robert Grainier from childhood into old age.
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Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

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By Denis Johnson, Geoff Dyer Verified, Jonathan Franzen
| Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Tree of Smoke – the name given to a ‘psyop’ that may or may not be hypothetical and may or may not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson’s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work. Set across south-east Asia and the United States, and spanning two decades, Tree of Smoke tells the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy who may or may not be engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong.
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