"An enigmatic author, possibly the best you've never heard of . . . His work insists on the reality of the inner world–perhaps even its primacy." –Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
"An authentically modernist novel . . . Its themes, as well as its technique, place him in the tradition of Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce." –Jon Day, The Guardian
"Strange and wonderful and nearly impossible to describe." –New York Times
"Tamarisk Row is a remarkably acute portrayal of what it is to be a bullied, confused boy, while Border Districts is dazzling for its austerity, its cruel purity. Their sentences ring in the ear, and the novels stay with you." –The Spectator
"The chief pleasures here are his departures from
convention, eccentricities of tone and diction, and flights of fancy, all
trademarks of his later fiction. . . An essential entry in this exceptional
writer's corpus." – Kirkus
Reviews, starred review
