Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
Autor Ted Geltneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2025 – vârsta ani
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781685970376
ISBN-10: 1685970370
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 13 color photos, 6 b&w photos, 1 b&w image
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
ISBN-10: 1685970370
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 13 color photos, 6 b&w photos, 1 b&w image
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Recenzii
“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
“Brian Eno once said that the Velvet Underground only sold a few thousand records, but everyone who heard them went out and formed a band. Denis Johnson is the equivalent for writers. He opened the door to strange, new territories of disaster and desire and we all streamed in after him, hoping to learn a little. In this intimate and deeply engaging biography, Ted Geltner makes the legend and the man behind it come alive.”—Jenny Offill, author, Weather
“Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures . . . a biography that has a rightful claim as the first real accounting of Johnson’s life . . . shines an uncomfortably bright spotlight on an author who often chose to remain half in the shadow. Geltner’s reporting demystifies the troubled period of Johnson’s life that shaped Jesus’ Son and leaves the reader with, among other things, a set of damning facts. . . . The feat of Geltner’s biography is, for the first time in print, untangling the complicated details of the first half of Johnson’s life. Geltner’s work exemplifies the old-school tools of journalism: newspaper archives, cold calls, police reports, knocking on doors. One can imagine certain facts dug up from long lost connections surprising even Johnson, were he alive to read them.”—Wyatt Williams, The New York Times
“Geltner’s detailed reporting makes the book both compelling and essential to future work on Johnson.”—Chicago Review of Books
“Brian Eno once said that the Velvet Underground only sold a few thousand records, but everyone who heard them went out and formed a band. Denis Johnson is the equivalent for writers. He opened the door to strange, new territories of disaster and desire and we all streamed in after him, hoping to learn a little. In this intimate and deeply engaging biography, Ted Geltner makes the legend and the man behind it come alive.”—Jenny Offill, author, Weather
“Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures . . . a biography that has a rightful claim as the first real accounting of Johnson’s life . . . shines an uncomfortably bright spotlight on an author who often chose to remain half in the shadow. Geltner’s reporting demystifies the troubled period of Johnson’s life that shaped Jesus’ Son and leaves the reader with, among other things, a set of damning facts. . . . The feat of Geltner’s biography is, for the first time in print, untangling the complicated details of the first half of Johnson’s life. Geltner’s work exemplifies the old-school tools of journalism: newspaper archives, cold calls, police reports, knocking on doors. One can imagine certain facts dug up from long lost connections surprising even Johnson, were he alive to read them.”—Wyatt Williams, The New York Times
“Geltner’s detailed reporting makes the book both compelling and essential to future work on Johnson.”—Chicago Review of Books
Notă biografică
Ted Geltner is professor of journalism at Valdosta State University. He is author of Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews. His journalism has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Descriere
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.