"Brilliant. . . . A writer of enormous seriousness and compassion." –Los Angeles Times"Wonderful. . . . A delight. . . . [Malouf is] one of the best writers in the world. . . This man is a master in our language."–The Portland Oregonian"Beautiful, haunting, harsh, these are tales of men and women, girls and boys all coming of age at every age through the their connection to the land and each other."–The Baltimore Sun"Humorous and sobering, sensitive and brutal, cosmopolitan and regional. . . . Belongs on the same shelf with the short fiction of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro. These are tales to be read and reread."–The Seattle Times