"Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. The most accessible of all his works."
–Washington Post "A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels [in a] race with the devil [on] a stage as big as Texas."
–The New York Times Book Review "Expertly staged and pitilessly lighted. It feels like a genuine diagnosis of the postmillennial malady, a scary illumination of the oncoming darkness."
–Time "A cause for celebration. He is nothing less than our greatest living writer, and this is a novel that must be read and remembered."
–Houston Chronicle