Demons . . .a murderous peeping Tom . . . a three hundred-pound psychic beautician . . . a two-headed baby . . . and a visionary painter haunted by a strange beauty and a family curse dating back to Napoleonic France. At once a mystery story, a love story, a kabbalistic conundrum, and a black comic farce in knockout prose

PRAISE FOR GOLDSMITH'S RETURN

"[Goldsmith's Return] is a novel of unusual ability and imagination.."
--Joseph Heller

"Goldsmith's Return is a superb comic novel, deliciously vicious, politically incorrect and outrageously funny. It is a large gem, a diamond as big as a rat."
--John Fergus Ryan



"Goldsmith's Return is an impish tour de farce of dark humor, a bubbling cauldron of Pynchonesque paranoia, Dostoevskian humiliation, Kafkaesque body-loathing and punishing language a la Philip Roth, all simmered down to a thick, pungent, Gothic sauce. "
-- The Buffalo News

" A panoply of characters, from a dwarf artist to an obese, new-age cowgirl with ESP named Dagmar, recall the work of John Irving in their uncanny provision of a bizarre, yet oddly accurate, reflection of life."
-- The San Francisco Review of Books