Novel of Relationships In Poetry
Angels by Denis Johnson (1949-2017) Their lives collided one cross-country Greyhound ride. The talk between Jamie Mays, estranged from her husband with their two children, and drifter Bill Houston quickly cushions the way for companionship. Neither had anything, their dreams long dissolved by the acid of life, their hopes ravaged by circumstance. Author Denis Johnson tells the couple’s story with an objective clarity that seduces the reader into living it with them. Johnson,