The Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

from TimBazzett

I've read two other Denis Johnson books - JESUS' SON and TREE OF SMOKE, both excellent. RESUSCITATION OF A HANGED MAN, probably one of his lesser known works, is a decidedly different kinda animal. It gives us the story of thirty-ish Lennie English, who arrives in Provincetown on Cape Cod in the ...

from Hagelstein

After attempting suicide (for no particular reason) and failing, semi-tortured soul Leonard English moves from Kansas to Provincetown, Massachusetts to take a hybrid job as an investigator and overnight radio announcer. His boss is Ray Sands, a retired detective who owns both the radio station an...

from TimBazzett

I've read two other Denis Johnson books - JESUS' SON and TREE OF SMOKE, both excellent. RESUSCITATION OF A HANGED MAN, probably one of his lesser known works, is a decidedly different kinda animal. It gives us the story of thirty-ish Lennie English, who arrives in Provincetown on Cape Cod in the ...

from Hagelstein

After attempting suicide (for no particular reason) and failing, semi-tortured soul Leonard English moves from Kansas to Provincetown, Massachusetts to take a hybrid job as an investigator and overnight radio announcer. His boss is Ray Sands, a retired detective who owns both the radio station an...