Description:
Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures tells the complete story of Johnson's fascinating life, his thrill-seeking trips into war zones as a magazine correspondent, his battles with addiction, his live-it-before-you-write-it style of fiction. It follows the arc of his tremendous body of work as a novelist, journalist, poet, and playwright, and in the process recovers the true stories from the hazy myths that one of our most beloved, yet enigmatic, writers left behind.
Review Quotes:
"A biography with all the fluidity and thrust of a novel. Ted Geltner definitively illuminates the tirelessly questing life of one of the most gifted, mysterious, and lyrical writers of our time. Denis Johnson was an utterly unique generational talent, and in these pages his inspiration and devotion to craft shine through brilliantly."--T. C. Boyle, author, Blue Skies