"Beatrix Potter meets the Marquis de Sade: Anthropomorphism and a weird, astringent sense of humour combined to make the late Jonathan Barrow’s only novel a work of genius."
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The Spectator
“The primitive, understated style amid such horrors has a nice comic effect, and it might be argued that Barrow only exaggerates the usual catalog of man’s inhumanity … Barrow suggests a writer who might in time have joined the ranks of William Burroughs, William Kotzwinkle, or John Kennedy Toole.”
Kirkus Reviews