Memoirs of a Midget

"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."—Rebecca West

"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."—Angela Carter

"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it…The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."—Harry Mathews

Miss M., the…