"Enthralling and inventive. . . . Gass delights with devious wordplay, rhetorical gymnastics and luscious description." –Minneapolis Star Tribune
"William Gass [is] our greatest living champion of the sentence." –
The New York Review of Books
"Dazzlingly literary. . . . This is the kind of bracing writing that you can really feel, and it makes you feel more alive." –
Paste "Mesmerizing. . . . Compelling." –
The Huffington Post
"Impressive. . . . Demonstrates Gass's continued experiments with narrative form." –
The New York Times Book Review
"Powerful, passionate. . . . Gass at his best and most mysterious. . . . All of [the stories] are distinguished by Gass's dry wit, verbal facility and rich prose style." –
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Brilliant. . . . A wonderful entry point into the Gassian literary cosmos." –
Electric Literature
"Quietly suspenseful, emotionally lustrous. . . . The literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, seething, trenchant, hilarious. . . . Gass is a mind-bending original of phenomenal brilliance, artistry, wit, and insight." –
Booklist (starred review)
"Excellent. . . . [Gass is] an exquisite maker of sentences, weighing his prose like a poet for rhythm, consonance, and intellectual heft." –
Kirkus Reviews
"Gass proves himself a master diviner, able to tap the deepest and most mysterious reservoirs."
–Publishers Weekly