''Angels'' is a 1983 novel by American author

Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007) ...

. It was Johnson's first novel; previously, he had published several books of poetry. Alice Hoffman, writing for the ''New York Times'', referred to the novel as "a mixture of poetry and obscenity". ''Angels'' follows two characters – Jamie, a young mother fleeing her abusive husband, and Bill Houston, a restless ex-convict – who encounter one another on an interstate bus trip. Bill Houston also appears in Johnson's novel ''

Tree of Smoke ''Tree of Smoke'' is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietn ...

'', which won the National Book Award in 2007. In 1999, David Foster Wallace included the novel on his list of overlooked American books published after 1960.

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{{Denis Johnson 1983 American novels 1983 debut novels Novels by Denis Johnson American crime novels Alfred A. Knopf books