"An amazing and beautiful and powerful book.... I can't think of a more courageous writer than Stephen Elliott. At the center of these stories of his degradations is, I think, a rare kind of love. He is beaten until he weeps so that he can be held while he cries. But this book isn't all pathos and blood and sex – it's also very funny. So Stephen Elliott can do it all – he can freak you out and he can make you laugh. What more could you want from a writer?" –
Jonathan Ames, author of
Wake Up, Sir!"Stephen Elliott describes the sexual and emotional terrain in a voice that is at once feral and sweet, straightforward and complicated, devastating and funny as hell." –San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Stephen Elliott knocks my fishnet stockings off." –Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"There's an emotional courage to these stories, and a sense of urgency, that are thrilling to encounter. Elliott writes as if his life depended on each sentence." –The Believer
"[A] profound, distilled work of art...drink it and be transformed." –Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
"[Elliott is] a master of muted prose.... He conveys unmet yearning with a poignancy that is universal." –San Francisco Chronicle
