This is the story of Skip Sands— spy in training, engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong— and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as t...

Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times....

A novel about California wastrels, many of whom are also poets and philosophers. The plot revolves around Nelson Fairchild, a man with serious money troubles. His father threatens to disinherit him and leave the family fortune to Nels...

Winner of the National Book AwardOne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, Salon, Slate, The ...

Hailed by the New York Times as 'wildly ambitious' and 'the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldie...

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West.  Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes ...

Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE...

A New York Times Notable BookAn Esquire Best Book of 2011A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011 Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions...