... perhaps his most remarkable and gripping work.

... intense, darkly humorous and frequently claustrophobic.

It is hard to think of a recent literary autobiography that pulls so few punches or is so nakedly self-revealing of the person that its author imagined himself to be.

... full in equal parts of vividness and pathos.

I can’t necessarily recommend [Storey's] memoir, which he hesitated to publish during his profoundly troubled life. But I will certainly never forget it.