Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback Second Printing A strong unusual novel A special coolness and creative energy. The writer is both committed to his world, and ironically detached. It is rare that a young novelist should be so much the master of his own inventions [George Steiner] I'm not unsympathetic [Anthony Burgess] Read it and be excited [Tribune] Be nauseated [Oxford Times] Bursting at the seams with vitality and intelligence [Sunday Telegraph] Big, blustering [Observer] Fresh, hot and strong [Glasgow Herald] His hero is something of a trainee hipster [Ian Hamilton, New Statesman] Remarkable eruptive force [Birmingham Post]

Very Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First Paperback Edition Arresting vitality crude and brutal [Irish Times] An elegy for a relationship [Times Literary Supplement] Beatnik’s Paradise Lost [Tit-Bits] An up-to-dately disabused idyll the apparently effortless sketching of a gallery of minor eccentrics, brilliantly vivid and funny suggest that Mr Lykiard, who is only 27, might one day compass a considerable novel in a traditional way, if that way ever seemed to him open. [Anne Duchene, The Guardian] Too inconsiderable to win the accolade of complete undesirability: the only superlative it merits is that of absolute mediocrity [Piers Brendon, Books & Bookmen] Obsessed with sex [South Wales Echo] A Sleeping Partner by the talented Greek-born, English-educated writer Alexis Lykiard is an exercise in concentration recorded with considerable skill [Surrey Mirror] A technical advance on Zones the book can be viewed as a Morality of today’s youth [Hugh McKinley, Athens Daily Post]

Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First Paperback Edition Alexis Lykiard continues to take a lonely, esoteric but wholly admirable road in The Drive North Intricately constructed, exuberantly told [Sunday Times] One of the pleasures of this book is indeed to be had from the sight of assured craftsmanship in action. It is a picaresque novel that isn’t at all typical of picaresque novels and an introspective novel that escapes from the limitations of such novels I was reminded of Malcolm Lowry and his aim in that masterpiece The Forest Path To The Spring, to write about human happiness with the same dignity usually given only to tragedy, and how he brings it off there and now Mr Lykiard here; and it was not only in this that Mr Lykiard reminded me of Lowry like Lowry he contrives to make the reflection dramatic The Drive North is very funny It's probably the best thing he’s done yet [Allan Massie, The Scotsman] A rough-hewn kind of novel, jokey, crude, hilarious, vivid, always intelligent, occasionally very moving [C.J.Driver, The Guardian] The whole tone of the novel is jazzy in that it uses a simple theme and builds on it, shoots off at tangents at times with asides that seem initially irrelevant, but finally adds up to a swinging, goodhumoured performance. Easy to read and thoroughly entertaining [Jim Burns, Tribune] I was meaning to write or talk to you ages ago about how much I enjoyed The Drive North a terrific book, I’ve read most of it twice and will again [Michael Horovitz] What Alexis Lykiard is after is the feeling of continuously writing up your own life, fictionalising events as they happen, orgies and all [Lorna Sage, Observer] It is hard to see how Mr Lykiard can use this as an excuse for being taken seriously [The Listener] Bounce and gaiety and the occasional striking piece of imagery [Irish Times]

Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. DJ has some light edgewear with a small open tear in upper panel near head of spine. Top edges slightly dusty. Lightly bruised at head and tail. A nice copy. :: Further Information: This story is of forbidden relationships in the Greek tragic tradition. 223pp. Size: 8vo Large Post (21 x 13cm Approx.) Jacket Designed by Alan Ball. Dust wrapper in protective, removable sleeve. First Edition. ::

Book is in good condition.