num_pages: 209
description: ‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ 
  New York Times
Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards, and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death.From the author of 
  Tree of Smoke
, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
language: English
title: Angels
titlecomplete: Angels
characters: Jamie Mays and Bill Houston
genres: 20th Century, American, Dark, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4767
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
publisher: Random House