"There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West.... [She has] a vision as bleak and precise as Eliot's." –John Leonard, The New York Times
"A slant of vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet–one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves." –Anne Tyler, New Republic
"A beautifully told first novel . . . written in prose both witty and imaginative." –The Times Literary Supplement (London)
