Its protagonist finally finds a stable job writing a newsletter at a facility for disabled people in its last story, "Beverly Home."
In a story from this collection, a college girl and her Taiwanese boyfriend crash into a telephone pole immediately after driving off with the narrator's money. This collection ends with its narrator rhapsodizing about "All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them" after recounting memories a woman saluting with her paralyzed arm during sex, and of a Mennonite man washing his wife's feet after arguing with her. In the film adaptation of this collection, its author plays the role of Terrence Weber, a man whose wife stabbed him in the (*) eye. Its protagonist finally finds a stable job writing a newsletter at a facility for disabled people in its last story, "Beverly Home." While cutting the baby bunnies out of a rabbit he had hit with his truck in its story "Emergency," the protagonist of this collection muses on the aptness of his nickname "Fuckhead." For 10 points, name this collection of linked stories about a recovering heroin addict, by Denis Johnson.
In a story from this collection, a college girl and her Taiwanese boyfriend crash into a telephone pole immediately after driving off with the narrator's money.
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