Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
A mixed bag ... There is something tentative here. A certain amount of critical texture is absent. But he captures Johnson’s lonely intelligence and gets the story told. It’s hardly uninteresting.
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Enjoyable, narratively brisk, and compassionate ... Geltner does for Johnson what Johnson did in his best fictions, offering us a deep, honest vision of a complicated, and often quite selfish, man while still bringing out what was most moving, generous, and poetic about him.
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Comprehensive ... Geltner’s detailed reporting makes the book both compelling and essential to future work on Johnson.
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