![]() I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”Ī tempting answer to the question of what happened to Fuckhead is that he became his author, who died on May 24, 2017, at age 67, of liver cancer. His duties include making the patients feel human, touching them once in a while so they know they’re not lepers: “All these weirdos,” the book ends, “and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. He spends his days among the unwell who nobody else ever sees. ![]() ![]() How many readers of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son have wondered what happens to Fuckhead when he grows up? Johnson’s 1991 masterpiece - a lean and quivering book of 11 linked stories told by a barfly, a junkie, and a petty criminal whose voice is somehow older and wiser than his years - ends with Fuckhead sobered up and working at a home for the aged, demented, amputated, and otherwise infirm. ![]()
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