"Her best work yet, assured, supple, exhilarating in its nerve and cool momentum" –Joan Didion
"A stunning novel...a powerful story that cuts back and forth in time to give us both the defining moment in a woman's life and an understanding of how that moment has reverberated through the remainder of her days...Her evocation of her heroine's passion for Harris Arden is so convincing, her depiction of the world she inhabits is so fiercely observed...The difference between [
Monkeys and
Evening] attests to Susan Minot's growing ambition and
assurance as an artist" –Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times "An absorbing drama...Minot writes with quiet perceptiveness and grace, pulling the
reader into Ann's deathbed reverie" –
Elle "A brilliant lyric performance" –John Casey
"In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain. This is the task of the novelist, and in Evening Minot has succeeded
admirably" –Roxana Robinson,
New York Times Book Review "It astounds in its craftsmanship and imprints itself indelibly on the heart...A haunting work of art that moves at the pace of a suspense thriller" –Sheila Bosworth,
New Orleans Times-Picayune "Evening is a beautifully realized work...more mature and confident than anything she has written...An exquisite novel" –Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe
"A wonderful, truthful, heartbreaking book. . ..
Evening vindicates the wildest assertions any of us have made about Susan Minot's talent" –Tom McGuane
"Evening is a supremely sensual, sensitive and dramatic novel...So rich in color and motion, music and atmosphere" –Donna Seaman,
Booklist "I was swept up in it...It moved me and made me cry" –D. T. Max,
New York Observer
