"Haskell uses language like a surgical instrument....These are stunningly sophisticated stories in which everything is new....[Haskell] makes language seem limitless in its possibilities." --Los Angeles Times

"A dazzlingly inventive collection of nine uninhibited narratives that uses myths, meditation, and old-fashioned morality to examine age-old conundrums of life and art." --Elle

"Simultaneously charming, innovative, and moving." --Esquire

"Haskell and his wild imagination put some fictional oomph into reality....The highly original, Hemingway-esque prose is just as colorful and provocative as Pollock's paintings." --Time Out New York

"A wonderfully intelligent, audacious, and perverse collection...I savored every mythic, mesmerizing word of it." --Jim Crace