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Biographical note
Steven Lukes is professor of politics and sociology at New York University, and the the author of Liberals and Cannibals and Moral Relativism. He lives in New York.Written in a beautifully clear style, full of a keen, serious wit ... Lukes achieves both lightness and weight in a way many novelists might envy.
Independent
This book is a box of delights, often wonderfully funny and always deliciously clever, a contemporary political satire to set among the best.
New Statesman
Steven Lukes's moral fable is in the tradition of tall travellers' tales from Swift and Voltaire to Lewis Carroll and Samuel Butler.
London Review of Books
Knock-out satirical humour.
Times Literary Supplement
Lukes manages to equal the pace and flair of <i>Candide</i>.
New York Times Book Review
Utterly magnetic.
Los Angeles Times Book Review