"A fine novel by an extraordinarily gifted writer.... His prose is vivid, ironic, filled with surprising and revealing insights." –
Washington Post Book World "Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely.... I offer a gentle exhortation–please read this book." –
Newsday "Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist." –
The New York Times Book Review "McGuane's sense of place, his harsh and delicate exactness of detail are at their keenest." –
Newsweek "Few writers have explored our national malaise as persistently–or as elegantly–as Thomas McGuane, a writer whose command of the language has helped define our American loneliness." –
Philadelphia Inquirer