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    Already Dead: A California Gothic
    Already Dead: A California Gothic
    Already Dead: A California Gothic
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    Already Dead: A California Gothic

    By Denis Johnson

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    A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land.

    Nelson has some serious problems. His marriage has fallen apart, and he may lose his land, cash and crop in the divorce. What's more, in need of some quick cash, he had foolishly agreed to smuggle $90,000 worth of cocaine through customs for Harry Lally, a major player in a drug syndicate. Chickening out just before bringing the drugs through, he flushed the powder. Now Lally wants him dead, and two goons are hot on his trail. Desperate, terrified and alone, for Nelson, there may be only one way out.

    This is Denis Johnson's biggest and most complex book to date, and it perfectly showcases his signature themes of fate, redemption and the unraveling of the fabric of today's society. Already Dead, with its masterful narrative of overlapping and entwined stories, will further fuel the acclaim that surrounds one of today's most fascinating writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 3, 2003
    ISBN9780061869204
    Already Dead: A California Gothic
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    Denis Johnson

    Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels. His poetry has been collected in the volume The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.

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    • 5/5
      With the present extremes of weather which are battering the UK at the moment,the theme of this book is nothing if not typical.Stephen Booth knows the Peak District like the back of his hand and it certainly shows in 'Already Dead'.The body of a man is discovered,presumed drowned,in shallow water,by the side of an isolated road. Diane Fry is put in charge of the case,but is not happy and neither are her team,who would much prefer to be led by Ben Cooper.Cooper however is on leave,having been injured in an arson attack (in the last book) and is having trouble both physically and mentally.The crime is an interesting one and the solution is clever,but it is the Peak District and the terrible weather that sticks in the mind with this one.A first-rate thriller.
    • 4/5
      The latest installment of the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series finds Ben still reeling from his near death experience in the last book which left his fiancée dead. In his absence, Diane is back at Derbyshire to solve the murder of what might be a drowning victim. While clues lead her team to conclude the death was no accident, the reader follows Ben on his personal vendetta to make those responsible for Liz’s death pay. His dreams and flashbacks torment him as he faces the realization that it may be left up to him to seek the justice they deserve. In a bit of irony, Ben appears to turn into Diane as his experience has left him a shell of a person lacking empathy while Diane is surprisingly morphing into a person who is actually conjuring up feelings. As usual, Booth doesn’t disappoint in yet another episode rich in atmosphere.
    • 3/5
      Did like it - but think perhaps he has gone a bit overboard on the description of place. Wirksworth deserves to be immortalised in fiction but not all of it moved the story forward, some of it felt like padding and some like a tourist guide. Liked the twist at the end. Sending Ben Cooper off the rails over his fiance's death rang quite true - as he seemed to have sleep-walked into the engagement (disturbing shades of The History of Mr Polly sleep-walking into marriage and then literally burning the house down). If the relationship had been better grounded then he might not have felt so disorientated when she died - although to be fair, if the relationship had been better grounded Stephen Booth might not have killed her off!
    • 5/5
      Ben Cooper trying to heal after what happened in the previous book. But also the effects of too much rain, flooding etc.
    • 4/5
      This is the second Stephen Booth book I've read. It is not a fast paced thriller by any means. It moves along slowly, giving lots of detail about the Peak District and it's inhabitants. A book worth reading although Fry really is unlikeable.
    • 4/5
      Denis Johnson. Denis fucking Johnson! How can you smile like some frat boy on the back of your book? You have truths and demons and angels in your head! How can you smile so smugly? With this book you have given me hope for modern literature. You have given me hope for art, for humanity. Of all of the living writers (I should specify fiction writers) that I rate seriously talented: 1) Nick Tosches, 2) Denis Johnson; 3) A.M. Homes; 4) Madeline Gins; 5) Deborah Levy. That's it. There are no more! "Already Dead" is a screaming mugging of Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra". It is a mind-blowing bitch-slap to today's modernity. Thank you Denis, smile and all. You've got it. For good or evil, you have it.

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    • 2/5
      parts of this are great, and some of the scenes could happen in no other setting between people from no where else in the world. Another reviewer said it better than I can " literature has to be more than just wild characters with wild stories" I wasn't exactly expecting great literature when I picked this up and I was surprised by the book's literary intent, but I'd still rather read [practical demonkeeping] for the tenth time.
    • 4/5
      This is a big, sprawling West Coast sort of a mess. You can almost smell the pot smoke wafting out from between the pages. The characters and situations are larger and more colorful than life, you know, like how things look when you've got a righteous buzz on. Yes, it's confusing at times. Yes, it could be tighter. But in true DJ style, Already Dead's surface craziness mask an fascinating look at the connection between the spiritual and the hedonistic.
    • 4/5
      Rarely does one encounter fiction which transports the reader completely outside themselves, immersing them in vividly captured landscapes of Redwoods & rolling ridges rising out of hazy Pacific waters in the distance; it's as if we're right there ourselves, a character, viewing the Lost Coast of Northern California through our own eyes and not the eyes of Denis Johnson's creations. Each time I opened Already Dead, I forgot about my life and what I had been or was about to be doing. I was transfixed in the reading, completely in the moment, page by page, word by word. I wasn't reading so much as going out-of-body, watching events transpire around me. No, I'm not stoned on incense and marijuana, like so many of the ruined lives in Already Dead. High art transports its audience outside themselves, and Denis Johnson is high art in my book; he has an amazing ability to take us into lives and landscapes composed from the material in ephemeral eternities, places where we get pleasantly lost, where realities blend with the surreal so that the former becomes indecipherable from the latter, and new perspectives, world views are forged. I could blather on about the plot, the much praised poetic language, how the Lost Coast of California's a perfect metaphor for the lives Johnson describes -- and these are all indeed vital elements worthy of discussion and analysis (and they're discussed elsewhere here in LT) -- but these elements pale in impact to what Already Dead elicits out of its more sympathetic readers: an almost altered state of consciousness; a state of what amounts to Zen meditation; spiritual transcendence. I've never considered myself a spiritual/mystical person, but I''ve discovered that in reading Denis Johnson and Already Dead, I may be more the mystic than I ever realized.
    • 5/5
      With language that is luminous at times, Johnson contrasts the beauty of coastal Northern California with the substance and rage induced behavior of some inhabitants. Although not really a crime novel there is plenty of crime to go around. Johnson mostly concerns himself with the demons in his characters and how most of them unsuccessfully attempt to keep them at bay, or not.
    • 4/5
      Welcome to the Hotel California …Johnson must not think much of Northern Californians, the entire cast of Already Dead is misogynistic, drug addled, possessed by demons, or just flat-out insane. That’s not to say that it’s not an enjoyable read, his use of language is often stunning, it’s just that there isn’t anyone in the book to root for. Halfway through the 435-page novel, I was hoping a tidal wave would just sweep all of them out into the Pacific Ocean. And yet …And yet I just kept reading.
    • 4/5
      Coming from Jesus' Son, Already Dead was much stranger than I expected. It does take a while to get into, is perhaps overly long/wordy in some spots, and is certainly a complex a read, but the reading experience as a whole is an interesting engagement with both language and character. There are passages that I found myself rereading--either to catch my place, or to simply revisit the language, and the writing overall is pulled together so tightly that it's easy to lose yourself in the story and the flow of time that the author sets up. For anyone who'd enjoy something a little bit strange and a little bit dark with some incredible writing along the way, I'd recommend this highly--just pick it up when you have some time to devote to it. This isn't one of those books you can read two pages of one day, a few pages the next, and a few more a few days later.

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