The Stars at Noon, Denis Johnson
The Stars at Noon, Denis Johnson
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The Stars at Noon

Author: Denis Johnson

Narrator: Will Patton

Unabridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023

Synopsis

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. • Now the basis for a major motion picture

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for the anti-war group Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman she begins an affair with? The two foreigners become entangled in sinister plots and ever-widening webs of corruption, until a desperate attempt to escape the country brings their relationship to a crisis point.

With his customary narrative brilliance, award-winning writer Denis Johnson brings a hellish landscape of moral ambiguity vividly to life.

About The Author

DENIS JOHNSON (1949-2017) 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 honors, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on October 24, 2020

“Morning’s an oven; noon is a star; dusk is a furnace; but the middle of the night, at its worst, is only a hot bath…” This slim novel, set in 1984 Nicaragua, is my first by Denis Johnson. I’m not sure why I started with this probably lesser-known work, except that I liked the title and the setting.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 01, 2020

My second rather obnoxious narrator in a row - this time a woman. She claims to be a journalist for an American paper but is working as a whore in Nicaragua in 1984 when we meet her. Here she meets an Englishman working for an oil company who has incurred the wrath of the Contras and the Americans b......more

Goodreads review by J. on January 06, 2016

When you hear the name Denis Johnson, you inevitably think of Jesus' Son, the book that put the man on the map. But 'The Stars At Noon' is another masterful work from a true talent that should not be missed. This is a novel about being trapped out in the open; one American woman's paranoid escape at......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on December 26, 2013

Actually, the book that really set me straight was Denis Johnson's The Stars At Noon. Johnson is one of those names I've always carried with me, and so one evening when my boyfriend and I were having dinner, and I got an itch to scour the Halfprice Bookstore shelves, when I saw this one title on the......more

Goodreads review by Lee on November 20, 2019

The single lingering impression is that I need to read the rest of Denis Johnson's novels. I mean, I've read the great Jesus' Son three times, a middling book of essays Seek, only really remembering one about Burning Man, and his posthumous story collection The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, which I li......more

Quotes

"A daring novel. . . . Johnson is one of our most inventive, unpredictable novelists." —The New York Times Book Review

"Ambitious and haunting. . . . It is as if one is reading a Graham Greene novel through a surreal haze. . . . Utterly brilliant." —Philadelphia Inquirer

"Powerful. . . . Johnson reminds us that political ideals have little to do with the shifting alliances and rhetoric by which we define our allies and enemies." —San Francisco Chronicle

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