A tour de force

Time Out

Self's sexually explicit fable bubbles with filth and bile, and Martin Rowson's splendid illustrations always rise to the occasion ...Spot-on

Independent on Sunday

Self is the master of the art of a telling sentence, and his portrait is instantly recognisable from his swaggering prose ... Self and Rowson take the reader into the realm of Burroughs's "abysmal depths", exhibiting all the alchemic possibilities of narcotics

Observer

This sheer love of language, the belief that the high of literature is to be found by snorting words off a Webster's, sets Self up at the bar with great linguistic junkies like T.C. Boyle

Los Angeles Times