{{Short description|1983 novel by Denis Johnson}} {{About||other similar named novels|Angel (disambiguation)#Literature}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | italic title = <!--(see above)--> | name = Angels | image = Angels (novel).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = First edition | author = Denis Johnson | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Fiction | set_in = | published = 1983 | publisher = Knopf | publisher2 = | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = 978-0060988821 | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }} '''''Angels''''' is a 1983 novel by American author Denis Johnson. It was Johnson's first novel; previously, he had published several books of poetry. Alice Hoffman, writing for the ''New York Times'', referred to the novel as "a mixture of poetry and obscenity".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/09/specials/johnson-angels.html|title=Slumps and Tailspins|last=Hoffman|first=Alice|date=2 October 1983|work=The New York Times|accessdate=10 October 2016}}</ref> ''Angels'' follows two characters – Jamie, a young mother fleeing her abusive husband, and Bill Houston, a restless ex-convict – who encounter one another on an interstate bus trip. Bill Houston also appears in Johnson's novel ''Tree of Smoke'', which won the National Book Award in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/tree-of-smoke|title=Tree of Smoke|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> {{paragraph break}} In 1999, David Foster Wallace included the novel on his list of overlooked American books published after 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/1999/04/12/wallace/|title=Overlooked: Five direly under appreciated U.S. novels >1960.|last=Wallace|first=David Foster|date=12 April 1999|work=Salon|accessdate=10 October 2016}}</ref>
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Category:1983 American novels Category:1983 English-language novels Category:1983 debut novels Category:Novels by Denis Johnson Category:American crime novels Category:Alfred A. Knopf books