![]() What is extraordinary about these stories is the intense fragility of the voice, which has an almost otherworldly texture sometimes. We see him in a myriad number of predicaments and at all stations of his journey: as a bullied youth who might be susceptible to drugs as a route of escape, when he’s in the most desperate throes of his addiction and finally, at the end, as a person in recovery who had “never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.” All of these stories (if we are going with the latter point of view) share the same narrator, a broken, nameless guy who’s an alcoholic and a drug addict. ![]() Jesus’ Son – the title is taken from “Heroin”, a Velvet Underground song penned by Lou Reed – could be described as either an episodic novel or a collection of 11 interlinked stories. Instead, it is a voice that seems able to encompass both the next world and this one too. ![]() ![]()
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