Cindy Lee Johnson
DENIS JOHNSON is the author of seven novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award.
ALSO BY DENIS JOHNSON
FICTION
Train Dreams
Nobody Move
Tree of Smoke
The Name of the World
Already Dead: A California Gothic
Jesus’ Son
The Stars at Noon
Fiskadoro
Angels
NONFICTION
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
POETRY
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General
Assembly: Poems, Collected and New
The Veil
The Incognito Lounge
PLAYS
Shoppers: Two Plays
Copyright © 1991 by Denis Johnson
All rights reserved
Published simultaneously in Canada by HarperCollinsCanadaLtd
It is a pleasure to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
and the Mrs. Giles R. Whiting Foundation for support
that made this writing possible.
eISBN 9781466807051
First eBook Edition : December 2011
First edition, 1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Denis.
Resuscitation of a hanged man : a novel / Denis Johnson.—1st ed.
I. Title.
PS3560.03745R47 1990 813’.54—dc20 90-46283
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