This young prodigy of a French writer was so shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever, so full of dawning marvel at the ways of the world, so freshly observant, that every page he wrote was a delight
Fay Weldon
Passages of delirious sensuality ... so assured that one wonders how he would have written in maturity
Guardian
A masterpiece
Jean Cocteau
This young prodigy of a French writer was so shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever, so full of dawning marvel at the ways of the world, so freshly observant, that every page he wrote was a delight
Fay Weldon
Passages of delirious sensuality ... so assured that one wonders how he would have written in maturity
Guardian
A masterpiece
Jean Cocteau
This young prodigy of a French writer was so shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever, so full of dawning marvel at the ways of the world, so freshly observant, that every page he wrote was a delight
Fay Weldon
Passages of delirious sensuality ... so assured that one wonders how he would have written in maturity