Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson: Connected short stories about an unnamed heroin addict named “fuckhead” who drifts around the country, getting in and out of trouble.
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't yet know that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. ...The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK31JPnSWeg
(link to a short scene from the movie version where Denis Johnson makes a brief cameo, playing the hospital patient with a hunting knife stuck in his eye.)
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