The Truth About Tristrem Varick

“Saltus's first two novels bear the imprint of the kind of diffident, decadent pessimism The Philosophy of Disenchantment elaborates. Indeed, the sensitivity requisite for the recognition that life has no value informs Mr. Incoul's Misadventure, the first novel, while the delusion that life has value motivates the action of the obtuse hero of the second novel, The Truth about Tristram Varick.”