Byrne

Second Printing, U.S. Edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 150. Plum linen cloth over orange paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

Author's last book, published posthumously. The ribald adventures of a dissolute Irish artist who ends up disappearing within Hitler's Third Reich, rendered in epic verse. "It is hard to convey the full flavour of this great feast of a book, which is an abundant blend of Rabelaisian bawdiness and Nabokovian complexity. Byrne compels wonder and delight." –Times Literary Supplement