Philip O'Connor's second book was rejected by numerous publishers despite his earlier success with Memoirs of a Public Baby--published by Faber & Faber in the UK. Dorothy Parker said of O'Connor, "always being outside society [he] saw into it with blinding clearness." Despite not being a success along the lines of Lolita or The Ginger Man, Steiner's Tour is a quality Olympia selection, and one we're glad to have. Additional: O'Connor married an heiress, woman as rich as Guggenheim, in 1967, spending the rest of his life drinking himself to death on her dime, thus living a dream many writers possess, but few are able to achieve.