Aldo Benjamin may be the unluckiest soul in human history, but that isn t going to stop his friend Liam writing about him. For what more could an aspiring novelist want from his muse than a thousand get-rich-quick schemes, a life-long love affair, an eloquently named brothel, the most sexually confusing evening imaginable and a brief conversation with God?

What a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent.
Peter Carey