“Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born.”—Pat Conroy
“Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism.”—Jonathan Lethem
“A quirky piece of intelligent pop that is also surprisingly moving.”—The New Yorker
“An intellectually diverting writer that . . . confounds the genre-rigid standard of most literary criticism. It is only a matter of time until his readership swells.”—The New York Times
“Poignant, wise, and wildly weird . . . . Utterly engaging characters, and a serious sense of fun.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He’ll lend you his eyes, and you’ll never see the world in quite the same way ever again.”—Neil Gaiman
“A surrealistic yarn told so frankly it seems wholly plausible.”—U.S. News and World Report
“Jonathan Carroll is as scary as Hitchcock, when he isn’t being as funny as Jim Carrey. If you’ve never read this wonderful fantasist, buy this book. You’ll stay up all night and thank me in the morning.”—Stephen King
“His beguiling, impossible novels are like Frank Capra films torn open to reveal the Philip K. Dick or Julio Cortazar mechanisms ticking away at their cores. The wooden Sea is one of his funniest, stranging, and most melancholy offerings.”—Jonathan Lethem.
“Though critics may try, there’s no way to pigeonhole The Wooden Sea. The novel includes time travel, religious doctrine, philosophy, talking animals, reincarnation, juvenile delinquency, murder, and megalomania. But mostly it’s a great love story in which the protagonist is willing to give up everything for the woman he loves.”—The Rocky Mountain News
“The Wooden Sea is a treat, and I’m heading out to look for more Jonathan Carroll titles. Frannie, the worldly war-stung small town cop, hits classic status for me. His luminously hard-boiled American voice is smart, funny, and devastatingly decent. Kind of guy you’re glad to follow anywhere—even into the strange zones of The Wooden Sea.”—Katherine Dunn
