‘Praise for the 1964 edition: ‘A brilliant and fascinating literary debut, flecked throughout with an originality and a freshness of thought which stirs the imagination’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Unusually original … not since Antoine stared at his hand and wished it would turn into a frog in Sartre’s La Nausee have I read a novel so successful in communicating the horrors of such trivia as muck up our day-to-day existence. This is a most remarkable literary debut’ Spectator
