Alfred Bester's last novel, completed posthumously by Roger Zelazny. Um, well. It didn't change my life. It revolves around a store in Rome called The Black Place of the Soul-Changer, where customers trade parts of their souls for other things. There's a black hole in Rome, and some aliens. It's colorful and entertaining, and the prose gets a bit out of hand in spots. This is why we read Bester. This is why people of us don't read Bester. Caveat emptor.