Professor Gabriel Rhab, éminence grise, art historian of serious renown with a slew of books to press home the point, is cosseted by his fame from criticism, attack, even legitimate intellectual probing...until he isn't. In academia, there is often a strain of viciousness surprising in a profession where no one tends to die and where the stakes are often occult to a larger world. Blue Boy is a fascinating dive into the greatness, the hallowed halls, and the rancor.

-Michelle Latiolais

Not since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf has a writer given us such an intense, provocative, and poetic look at the tensions between art and marriage, illusion and reality. Jean McGarry's Blue Boy is as heartbreakingly beautiful as a pieta by an Old World master.

-Eileen Pollack, author of Breaking and Entering and A Perfect Life

It's delicious, so delicious. Wickedly sharp and funny and flat-out beautiful.

-Jeffrey Blitz, Director of Spellbound and numerous television shows, including The Office and Trial and Error

Jean McGarry squeezes a heightened reality-a truthfulness, a naturalness-out of her flair for the strange and the bizarre...she shows us that the truth is crazy. A wild ride of a book.

-Jed Perl, author of Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts, and contributor, New York Review of Books