BLURBS AND REVIEWS OF THE 1996 PRECURSOR TEXT TO New Moon: A Coming of Age Tale

“At once a memoir, an account of psychoanalysis, and a both savage and loving account of New York in the ’50s, New Moon is a work with many layers and a unique tone, reminiscent of Robert Musil’s A Man Without Qualities in its blend of analytical realism, melancholia, and acute psychoanalytic and philosophical penetration.”

—Andrew Harvey, author of The Divine Feminine: Exploring the Feminine Face of God Throughout the World

“A strange and remarkable self-evaluation in the form of a novel—illuminating, tender, moving, evocative … any number of adjectives of praise would be appropriate.”

—George Plimpton, author of Out of My League

“A fascinating self-portrait of the youth of one of our most profound and rebellious thinkers, told with a deceptive simplicity that is capable of shifting at any moment into the haunted resonance of a fairy tale, and in a language so nakedly honest it is never more than one step away from tenderness.”

—Gerald Rosen, author of The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole

“Indeed, some readers are going to rank this memoir of baseball, summer camp, Latin classes, domestic terrors, and enchanted moments at Grossinger’s as a spiritual quest in the tradition of Blake, Emerson, and … James Agee….”

—Mike Harris, Los Angeles Times

“Richard Grossinger tells me who he is, so he shows me who I am.”

—Joy Manné, author of Soul Therapy

“… skillfully evokes the world of ’50s New York and Grossinger’s Catskills as well as the counterculture of the ’60s….”

—Publishers Weekly

“New Moon is something new under the sun, a real psychoanalytic autobiography.”

—Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews