This short novel is Quentin S.
Crisp 's most accomplished work yet, subtle and strange and powerful, a bleak and moving tale of psychological horror.
The main character, Brett Stokes, is an Englishman in Japan who's making use of a few weeks away from home to try to figure out where his last rela- tionship - and his life - went wrong.
We're warned at the beginning that nothing happened - and this turns out to be true, in more than one sense.
- Lisa Tuttle.
Zagava Books Shrike, paperback/quentin s. crisp
