Grey Magic is a work of great scope and stylistic virtuosity, combining
antic humor with immense sophistication, an Anglo-American setting with
an Anglo-European sensibility and a profound insight into contemporary
issues of both personal and collective resonance. It is also an account
of a would-be sorcerer's aspirations to 'Fausthood', a passionate love
story and a tale of revenge exacted through a curse. Like its author,
the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiographical novel is born
and educated in the States but expatriates himself to Britain in his
early thirties.