"Roth's most controlled and elegant work ... serious, intelligent, dramatic, acutely vivid, slyly and wickedly funny ... seductive far beyond its brief efficiency."
–Village Voice "I had only to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller."
–The New York Review of Books "Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power–the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale–is superb."
–The Washington Post
