"If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this."—John Ashbery“The mad genius ofPale Fire with the florid outlaw sexuality of Jean Genet”—Kirkus Reviews For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family’s home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music