The addicts attempt to treat McInnes and drive him to a hospital, but their efforts are ineffectual and McInnes dies.

Dundun tells Fuckhead that he has just shot their mutual acquaintance McInnes. When Fuckhead arrives, his friend Dundun is pumping water. In “Dundun,” Fuckhead goes in search of pharmaceutical-grade opium, following the trail to a farm. As he recalls that Jack is long dead from an overdose, the narrator feels grateful amazement that he himself is somehow still alive. “I don’t care,” Fuckhead tells her, “You’re going to be sorry.”Ī recurring character, Jack Hotel, makes his first appearance in “Out on Bail.” Fuckhead remembers how he and Jack used to steal the welfare checks of dead people. They find Thatcher’s girlfriend, and Fuckhead holds a gun to her head while Tom and Richard search the place, finding that Thatcher has climbed out the window. Fuckhead persuades his friends to follow Thatcher home. Later, Fuckhead spots Thatcher, a dealer who once sold him bad cocaine. Fuckhead muses on the man’s fall from grace as he, Tom, and Richard scheme to leave him behind.

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.” The narrator and his friends Tom and Richard find themselves thrown together with a mute drug addict in “Two Men.” The mute man turns out to be a former high-school football star. Witnessing the mother’s grief, Fuckhead experiences a moment of spiritual transcendence: “I’ve gone looking for that feeling everywhere.” The narrator connects this moment to another, years later, in which he has another transcendent experience during detox: “I could hear a creek rushing down among rocks. The car does crash, and the narrator follows the family to the hospital, where the father of the family dies. He is so tired, wet, and high that he gets in anyway. As he gets into the car, he has a premonition: this car will crash. An all-American family pulls over and offers Fuckhead a ride. He recalls the various drivers who have brought him thus far. The collection’s opening story, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” introduces “Fuckhead” on the side of a road in the pouring rain. The title is taken from the lyrics of “Heroin,” a song by the Velvet Underground.

Weekly) upon publication, Jesus’ Son has come to be recognized as one of the most important and influential story collections of the twentieth century. The collection’s unnamed narrator-known by the nickname “Fuckhead”-is a heroin addict, and his stories revolve around memorable drug binges, criminal misadventures and the mistrustful community of drug-users wandering between various Midwestern and Pacific North-western locales. Jesus’ Son is a 1992 collection of linked short stories by American author Denis Johnson.

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