Barbaric Genius – Review

Philip French, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Sun, 05/27/2012 - 6:43am

Born in London in 1943 into an Irish working-class family, John Healy became a criminal and alcoholic before discovering chess, yoga and a gift for autobiographical writing in the Charles Bukowski manner. This documentary on his life, and how the 1988 memoir The Grass Arena made him famous, is fascinating.

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