"Elegant and chilling. . . . A trickily plotted black comedy that reads at once as a morality play and a glittering entertainment." -
The New York Times "Strangely gripping and gnomically illuminating. . . . Spark has produced one of the best of her sui-generis novels." -John Updike,
The New Yorker "A killer, his double, a shrink and her lover are the core cast of madcap characters in this gleefully grisly novel. . . . Spark does a remarkable job of weaving wacky personalities and gruesome details into a fast-moving, subversive comedy. . . . This book will make you laugh out loud." -
The Wall Street Journal