"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."—New York Times Book Review

"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

"McGuane is very much his own man stalking his own kind of truth, and part of the inordinate vitality of the novel derives from the fact that life and death are the same process. A talent hard to define or confine -- it just is."—Kirkus Reviews