A finely crafted piece. Its very brevity and precision may not appeal to readers who prefer a literary canvas put together with broader and more varied strokes. The fact that much gay liberature is written in this broader, wordier, and more romanticized style speaks well for The Fourth Wall, and for the future of a gay literature which is both more varied and experimental. The novel is heartily recommended.

          --Thomas Vinew, GPU News

The Fourth Wall is set within the framework of a single day and is written in a unique fresh style blending contemporary cinematic imagery with the sparse precision of the French nouveau roman. Its principal character Bret Hamilton lives an alternate lifestyle in a future society dominated by television and Var is a willing initiate into his private world. Sonia and Weslex have long surrendered to conformity. However life and death is an entirely different matter for the man whose image is central to the governing of the nation.