"Excellent ... A remarkably original and subtle book." --The New York Review of Books
"Julian Barnes [is] one of today's most rewarding writers." --Chicago Tribune
"[Barnes] is not merely a dazzling entertainer ... he is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dexterous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperaments." --The New Yorker
"Funny, sad, faintly ominous...making jealousy tangible and dangerous." --Spectator
"Concise and witty about psychology, ideas and love, in all its many forms" --The Times