January 18, 2018
Completed before his death in May 2017, Denis Johnson’s second short story collection comes 26 years after his first, Jesus’ Son. Fittingly, the pieces in The Largesse of the Sea Maiden are more reflective in tone, longer in the telling, and lighter on the mayhem. What hasn’t changed is Johnson’s masterful phrasing and his mordant humor. There’s still some mayhem, too: characters besieged by ghosts and obsessed with graves. This collection is a welcome final gift from one of the great writers of a generation.
— Michael, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR
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