<p>Brilliantly inventive， written with great flair and shows a deliciously comic and ironic sense of American realities.&quot;&quot;&mdash;Alfred Kazin <br />

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&quot;&quot;The virtues of [Vizinczey's] style are those he finds in Hungarian poetry: the moody ferocity of a locked-up beast， and also a classic clarity and complete lack of self-indulgence.&quot;&quot;&mdash;Thomas D'Evelyn， <em>Christian Science Monitor </em><br />

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&quot;&quot;Shows where the true values lie&mdash;not in wealth or the rule of law but in that as yet inviolate sector where a man and woman make love. . . . I was entertained but also deeply moved: here is a novel set bang in the middle of our decadent， polluted， corrupt world that， in some curious way， breathes a kind of desperate hope.&quot;&quot;&mdash;Anthony Burgess， <em>Punch</em> (London) <br />

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&quot;&quot;Bravo!&quot;&quot;&mdash;Graham Greene</p>