"A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy." – Newsday
"America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in." – San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo." – The Nation
"Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today." – Chicago Tribune
"Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working–Pynchon and DeLillo excepted–who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications." – Esquire
