The Queens’ BallBy: Copi Series: Inpatient Press Mercurial Editions The first English translation of Copis comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza. Set among the flamboyant demi monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him. His Roman lover Pietro is stolen by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator whose coterie take up residence in