In the main vein of Thomas Ripley, Holden Caulfield, and Patrick Bateman, Dennison Rey's anit-hero Terry Taft may very well be one-part narcissistic and one-part misanthropic, but he remains all parts in between. Taft's semi-stream-of-consciousness foray toward the brink of self-discovery is littered with questions and concerns. And sure, maybe even a corpse or two. Along the way he continually contemplates his sanity, morality, and sexuality, all the while wondering whether he's ©normal.© He fuels his perversions through meaningless relationships with women and unfulfilling connections with men. Eventually he discovers that when he plays with himself, someone plays with him.