This is the final work in a triad of novels concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd. (1971) is the acting out of a lyric dream; (1974) a descent into the depths of psychic darkness to the edge of death; and (1976) an icily comic portrait of the poet as suicide and murderer. It is one of the most cruelly and brilliantly ironic works to be found in contemporary literature.
.. there is 110 doubt that lie is one of the very best living American writers, and one of his most remarkable fictions.”
