"A magnificent work of fiction.... A novel to pore over, move around in, live with." –
The New York Times "John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like
Bullet Park and
Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." –Philip Roth
"A master American storyteller." –
Time "In a class by itself, not only among Cheever's work but among all the novels I know." –Joseph Heller
"John Cheever's prose is always a pleasure to read because it is both graceful and governed." –
Chicago Tribune