A visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts and lost souls, and a classic of Twentieth-Century American literature - reissued with a striking new cover.

A young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, spirals through these interlinked stories of grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. In the course of his adventures, he meets an assortment of people, who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners, misfits, the lost, the damned, the desperate and the forgotten. Out of their bleak, seemingly random lives, Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh and devastating beauty.

"Modern-day parables that glow with a strange, radioactive light" - The New York Times

"A mini masterpiece" - Sunday Times

"Truly extraordinary" - Scotland on Sunday

"Denis Johnson is inspired, in the truest sense of that once-potent, even dangerous word." - LA Times

"Writing of a ferocious intensity ... No American novelist since William Burroughs has so flagrantly risked "insensitivity" in an effort to depict the pathology of addiction." - New York Times

"A distinctive turn in the history of the form" - Atlantic Monthly

"Johnson is probably the best writer of English prose around... It's all delivered with an astonishing beauty" - Metro