Reviews
"Magnificent. . . . [A] massively ambitious, profoundly accomplished novel." - San Francisco Chronicle "Glorious, chaotic, raw. . . . One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year. . . . Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling." -- Time "A tour de force . . . Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell it On the Mountain , A Walker in the City , and Call it Sleep ." -- The New York Times "The finest novel of the year, by far, and likely of the past five. . . . Better than a movie, better than a symphony, better than a play, and better than a painting, because it is all of them." - Austin Chronicle, "Magnificent. . . . [A] massively ambitious, profoundly accomplished novel." San Francisco Chronicle "Glorious, chaotic, raw. . . . One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year. . . . Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling." -- Time "A tour de force . . . Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell it On the Mountain , A Walker in the City , and Call it Sleep ." -- The New York Times "The finest novel of the year, by far, and likely of the past five. . . . Better than a movie, better than a symphony, better than a play, and better than a painting, because it is all of them." Austin Chronicle, "Magnificent. . . . [A] massively ambitious, profoundly accomplished novel." San Francisco Chronicle "Glorious, chaotic, raw. . . . One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year. . . . Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling." -- Time "A tour de force . . . Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell it On the Mountain , A Walker in the City , and Call it Sleep ." -- The New York Times "The finest novel of the year, by far, and likely of the past five. . . . Better than a movie, better than a symphony, better than a play, and better than a painting, because it is all of them." Austin Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition., "Magnificent. . . . [A] massively ambitious, profoundly accomplished novel." San Francisco Chronicle "Glorious, chaotic, raw. . . . One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year. . . . Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling." --Time "A tour de force . . . Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back throughGo Tell it On the Mountain,A Walker in the City, andCall it Sleep." --The New York Times "The finest novel of the year, by far, and likely of the past five. . . . Better than a movie, better than a symphony, better than a play, and better than a painting, because it is all of them." Austin Chronicle
