Adazzling and savage first novelNew York Times

Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.

So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America the bars, bus stations, mental wards and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death.

From the author ofTree of Smoke, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novelTree of Smokewon the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, andTrain Dreamswas a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.