The Name of the World
2000
First Published
3.54
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he begins to find people who - against all expectation - help him through his private labyrinth.
Avg Rating
3.54
Number of Ratings
2,551
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Denis Johnson
Author · 27 books
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993), a Whiting Writer's Award (1986), the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from the Paris Review for Train Dreams, and most recently, the National Book Award for Fiction (2007).
