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
