 Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, high camp, overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement. The New York Times Book ReviewGrove Press978-0-8021-3013-6 14.00 Paperback Mar. 1976FictionA cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius. The New York TimesA matchless contemporary classic. . . . Like Ulysses in its own day, so creatively formidable that any comment on its merit becomes at once presumptuous. Terry SouthernGenet has taken a tabooed subject and created a world that is out of this world. He is a magician, an enchanter of the first order. Richard WrightOnly a handful of twentieth century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style. Susan SontagIncredible, appalling, thrilling, disturbing, offbeat, eloquent, violently crude, yet compelling. Reflects, as no other book of our time, the lower depths of human existence. Boston Herald 