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There s the bantam power of its brevity you can read the book in one sitting and the pitiless, poetic excavation of an underground existence bombed by narcotics, of psyches that prefer the time of their lives to the lives of their time.

It boasts a deft circumvention of that tired trope polluting so many American stories of addiction the trek from cursed to cured, from lost to loved, from breakdown to breakthrough. It also maintains an effortless appropriation of elements from the three most important story writers of the American twentieth century Ernest Hemingway s sanctifying of the natural world in The Nick Adams Stories ; Flannery O Connor s spiritual grotesquerie and redemptive questing; and Raymond Carver s noble ciphers manhandled by the falsity of the American Dream Johnson was one of Carver s drinking compeers at Iowa in the early 1970s.