Title: A brave, personal & unique insight into a genius
Review: Ian Curtis was, after Dylan, the most talented, visionary poet ever to grace the skimpy depths of pop. His writing bore the distilled intensity of the greatest poets, best exemplified on Joy Division's posthumous masterpiece Closer, a peerless, terrifying, airless work which in its final two songs suddenly transforms into a beautiful, war-torn smile of relief, a wonderful, liberating acceptance of death.Deborah Curtis tells her story - and her husband's - with terrifific passion and urgency but with a heatbreaking, neverending determination to understand who he was and what led him to take his own life. This book is a must for all Joy Division fans and anyone interested in the scaffolding behind the dazzle of genius and celebrity - not to suggest that Curtis wasn't the former, because he most certainly was.
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