Okay, kids, here’s the deal. After languishing for years in the undeserved obscurity of a backlist and gathering dust on library shelves, Goldsmith has defiantly returned as an audiobook. Yes, Goldsmith is making a comeback. But he needs your help. Why? Because (despite Joseph Heller’s blurb, despite excellent reviews) almost no one has ever heard of him. And that’s where you come in.

For (in the little, flyblown hovel where I pen my deathless prose) I have several pristine, first editions of Goldsmith’s Return. I am prepared to give away ten of them – but only to Goodreads members who have written what I judge to be carefully considered reviews. So, if you’re interested, send me a note by clicking on the envelope icon on the top of this page. In your note please refer me to one or two of the reviews you feel most pleased with.

Since I will be mailing signed first editions at my own expense, I must limit the number of free books. So please don’t have your feelings hurt if I have had too many requests and simply can’t accede to yours. But if I do, I ask that you post your review on Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I will thank you for it and so (emerging at last from the shadows) will Goldsmith.


“a novel of unusual ability and imagination”
-- Joseph Heller

"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