High Author:Thomas Hinde "the most ingenious novel to be written in English since Nabokov's PALE FIRE, and it builds up far more compulsive suspense / bright, amusing romp, lots of fun and sex / rushing at headlong pace from scene to scene and packed with eating, drinking, junketing and trip-taking / one of the best novels by an Englishman since the war / brilliant epis... more »odes in the telling, tour de force performances / this riotous satire is to be commended for all sorts of brilliant qualities--energy, ingenuity and the generosity of its laughter at the wilder nonsense of our time"« less