"A prose that doesn't merely aspire to the condition of music but actually achieves it."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"Irresistible . . . Millhauser is a virtuoso of waking dreams."-The New Yorker

"[He] plunges us into the very heartland of human complexity and folly."-Frederic Tuten, New York Times Book Review

"[Millhauser] creates a world that is exquisite in its tortures and terrors, a world which only the heightened consciousness of an artist of a dreamer could inhabit."-William Kennedy

"Such intelligence, wit and compassion that a reviewer's catalogue of superlatives is inadequate to it."-Jonathan Yardley

"Millhauser's writing is dazzling . . . [with] heart as well as fierce intelligence, and that combination, to my mind, signifies greatness."-David Leavitt, Esquire