At times in his life <strong>Tom Harris</strong> is a dull schoolboy an apprentice barber adelinquent husband an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green M... » 

At times in his life Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy an apprentice barber adelinquent husband an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pubil professore Harris at the University of Genoa and possibly a murderer. Butthe question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is and what crimes he hasreally committed obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps bedescribed as a sort of philosophical detective story ingeniously plotted andwittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works ofRaymond Quenau. «