Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson. 1991 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, signed by the author, 257 pages. Johnson was a novelist and poet who garnered acclaim for his short-story collection Jesus's Son and award-winning novel Tree of Smoke. According to New York Times, "[His] novels and short stories about the fallen — junkies, down-and-out travelers, drifters and violent men in the United States and abroad — emerged in ecstatic, hallucinatory and sometimes minimalist prose." According to a review of Resuscitation in the New York Times: "There has never been any doubt about Denis Johnson's ability to write a gorgeous sentence. The author of "Angels," "Fiskadoro" and "The Stars at Noon" has become increasingly musical in his prose, and his latest novel, "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man," depends on such sentences as the primary unit of narrative motion. The novel seems, like a poem, to be written line to line. It is very much a book about one man, one sensibility."

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