Bowersock has written the best narrative history of Julian's
career...His success is due not only to the vivid style but to the
command of the very wide variety of sources that enables him to
derive new insights from unexpected facts. -- W. H. C. Frend "New
York Review of Books"
Packed with skillfully deployed information and remarkable
insights...The picture is drawn with an incisive vigor which is
completely convincing, and with unusual elegance of style. -- J. N.
D. Kelly "The Observer"
The most reliable and lucid account available of Julian's haunting
obsession...An extraordinarily good book about an extraordinary
man. -- George Steiner "London Times"
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