Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: hilarious and haunting

The best, most insightful, most bitingly funny novel about New York in the 80s I have read. The tightly wound plot unravels with intellectual suspense, revealing the hidden workings and interconnections of powerful and powerless, money and art, country and city. This is a stealth epic disguised as a comico-satiric memoir. An ambitious book about big subjects which at the same time brings into sharp focus a particular time and place.