 I spotted this in the science fiction section at the local library. It's obviously the inspiration for the movie, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lowe, although there's no mention of that fact anywhere in or on the book. This was a real surprise. I can't tell you how many times throughout the book my jaw dropped open at the author's mastery of language. I mean mastery. I don't recall ever reading such elegant and astonishingly beautiful passages of just amazing use of language. It's too bad he didn't write an actual story because this is not a novel. It reads more like a series of notes on an unfinished novel. And racist? Oh my God. There's so much racist language. But with Finney being so good with language, I have to assume that every choice he made is deliberate and this is satire of the times he lived in. And what little there is to this book is excellent satire.