"Gerald Jay Goldberg has created a whole man--not just one more 'literary character,' but a full-bodied, hot-blooded, ego-screaming universe of a man."
C.D.B. Bryan
New York Times Book Review

"A high altitude performance."
The Kirkus Reviews

"Clearly an extraordinary writer..."
Library Journal

"The best 20th-century novel about an artist."
Peter Plagens
Art News Centennial Issue

"A extraordinary tour de force."
Chicago Tribune

"The tension and clarity of Mr. Goldberg's
writing leaves us no choice but to follow his raging anti-hero from the comparatively mild beginning to the thundering finish."
The New Yorker

"Squarely in the great tradition--so akin to contemporary sensibilities--of Fielding, Diderot and Sterne."
William Beauchamp
Life Magazine