"Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely.... I offer a gentle exhortation--please read this book." --Newsday

"Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist." --The New York Times Book Review

"McGuane's sense of place, his harsh and delicate exactness of detail are at their keenest." --Newsweek

"Few writers have explored our national malaise as persistently--or as elegantly--as Thomas McGuane, a writer whose command of the language has helped define our American loneliness." --Philadelphia Inquirer