SOURCE: A review of The Magic Striptease, in Saturday Review/World, Vol. 1, No. 9, January 12, 1974, p. 52.

In the following review, Heath offers a laudatory assessment of The Magic Striptease.

George Garrett's latest work [The Magic Striptease], a tidy fictional threesome, shows him to be a refreshing and casual yarn spinner of no little imagination. Distinctive in matter and manner, ranging in mood from comic to grim, these vignettes might have been written by different authors, except for the constants of Garrett's realistic, imaginative dialogue and dazzling quick-sketch portraiture.

The title story is a comic-strip fable brimming with magic and secret laughter that tells of one Jacob Quirk, an inveterate mimic so enamored of the concept of human freedom and man's ability to change that he devotes his life to the perfection of his mimetic art and, ultimately, to self-transformation. The extent of his vagaries limited only by his own...