"A quiet triumph . . . Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world: the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels."–
The Washington Post "A beautiful novel."–
The Boston Globe "
Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life . . . The characters are so real that often my eyes filled up with tears for their plight, their human helplessness."–Richard Brautigan
"Superb."–
Saturday Review "In Harrison's hand the story is fresh with a gentle intuition."–
Houston Chronicle