"Exhilarating...vigorous and luminous...Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee."
-The New York Times Book Review "The best rendering of erotic politics...since D.H. Lawrence...a marvelous novel, one in which a resolutely independent voice claims new imaginative territory...The voice of Rush's narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing."
-The New York Review of Books "Witty, raunchy...prodigiously aspiring...a remarkable book...His protagonist is a memorable female character: a continually shifting prism that revolves from dashing to needy, from witty to morose...wonderfully varied and pungent."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously and know they sometimes sound silly...
Mating is state-of-the-art artifice."
-Newsweek "It draws the reader steadily in. Not toward the heart of darkness but toward brilliant illumination."
-The New York Times "Bold and ambitious...delightful, provocative."
-San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliantly written...utterly sui generis!...Rush has alerted us to the transfiguring power of passion...He deploys the narrative voice with...brio...wit and persuasiveness."
-Mirabella "An audaciously clever novel with substance as well as flash."
-Detroit Free Press
