The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson's -- Jonathan Franzen
Intense, vicious, and beautiful ... Denis Johnson is an exquisite writer -- Mary Gaitskill
Modern-day parables that glow with a strange, radioactive light -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times *
A mini masterpiece * Sunday Times *
Truly extraordinary -- Marc Lambert, Books of the Year * Scotland on Sunday *
Denis Johnson is inspired, in the truest sense of that once-potent, even dangerous word. * LA Times *
Writing of a ferocious intensity ... No American novelist since William Burroughs has so flagrantly risked "insensitivity" in an effort to depict the pathology of addiction. -- James McManus * New York Times *
A distinctive turn in the history of the form * Atlantic Monthly *
Johnson is probably the best writer of English prose around... It's all delivered with an astonishing beauty -- David Flusfeder * Metro *

DENIS JOHNSON is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage.