"Beautifully written, and hypnotically readable...the best story I know of in a long, long time."
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Vanity Fair "Full of enchantment...a precise conjuring of an exceptional child's perceptions and feelings."
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Entertainment Weekly "A big, old-fashioned book as satisfying as a fine evening at the symphony."
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Dallas Morning News "A literary event...a grand saga...
Body & Soul was written under the spell of Dickens, not to mention Stendhal, Tolstoy and the other 19th century titans...Conroy bedazzles readers!
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Chicago Tribune