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<p><P>"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, <i>Hellhound on My Trail</i> and <i>Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames</i>.The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson's specialties &#151; in his critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new plays. <P>These two works present a dramatized field guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric inhabitants of the American West&#58; a sexual-misconduct investigator who misconducts herself sexually; a renegade Jehovah's Witness who supports his splinter Jehovean group by dealing drugs; the Cassandra Brothers and their father and their grandmother, thrown together at a family reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah, California.<P>When <i>Shoppers Carried by Escalators</i> Into the Flames was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the <i>Chronicle</i> said, <i>There's an enormous appeal in Johnson's bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American West</i>. That appeal derives from the author's perfect vision of

Author

Johnson, Denis, 1949-; Johnson, Denis, 1949- Shoppers being carried into the flames

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060934408

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.17 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14