``Vividly imagined, compelling, and sympathetic, The Perfume Burned His Eyes convinces with the force of its emotional intensity.
``--Joyce Carol Oates``It has been a long time since I have regarded the prospect of taking up a new first novel other than with dull dread and a sardonic snort of rightfully prejudicial dismissal.
Then I happened on this one: the kind of bird you don't see anymore in the kind of sky you don't see anymore.
Imperioli can write, and he has given us a book--that most outmoded of handheld devices, devoid of all apps--that brings a rare and welcome breeze of imagination and wit.
``--Nick Tosches, author of Under Tiberius``This coming-of-age narrative is a fearless, towering inferno burning with raw truthfulness, stunning surprises, thrills, poetic writing, and an odyssey not just to be read, but reckoned with.
``--Richard Lewis, comedian, author of The Other Great Depression``Michael Imperioli discovers a whole new demimonde in his journey from Queens to the hideaways and hell-a-ways of Manhattan.
It's a streetwise romp through an underworld of bizarre characters desperate to find their own transcendence, written with affection, wit, and telepathic understanding.
``--Lenny Kaye, musician and author``Touching, hilarious, heartfelt, and poetic, with an ending that is crushing, bruising, beautiful.
Unpredictable and sweet as well, this is a unique accomplishment.
``--Lydia Lunch, author of Will Work for Drugs``The Perfume Burned His Eyes shook me up in a way a book hasn't since my twenties.
I found myself questioning the narrative I have built for myself in order to survive as an artist and a parent.
It threw me back to being an awkward teenager in love, and destroyed some of the scaffolding of false memories I had built.
This book allowed me to be with myself as a young, innocent teen without judgment, and opened my eyes and heart to the hurdles my teenager is now about to face.
Mike's book is gentle, pure, perverse, and devastating.
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