The Largesse of the Sea Maiden ─ Stories

Twenty-five years after his seminal Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson

“A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“The most essential writer of his generation.”—Los Angeles Times

“America’s most incandescent novelist.”—Slate

“The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson’s.”—Jonathan Franzen

“Prose of amazing power and stylishness.”—Philip Roth
 
“When Denis Johnson is justly praised for his voice, I always think, just the one? He has an eerie symphony at his command.”—Karen Russell

“Infinite fannage.”—George Saunders

“Great prose, truly great.”—David Foster Wallace

“Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer.”—Mary Gaitskill

“His lonely spaces and stunned lives have a hair-trigger fascination that is American to the core.”—Don DeLillo

“He’s not afraid to risk going straight toward the sublime.”—Jenny Offill

Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. Among other honors, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.