"Magnificant, a pleasure, a significant literary debut." —The New York Times
"Life as it is lived…One doesn’t know whether to cheer or weep, but one goes on reading." —Detroit Free Press
"[Beattie is] a writer’s writer." —Boston Evening Globe
"Ann Beattie is both painful and funny. She is a writer for all audiences, combining a remarkable array of skills with mateial of wide popular appeal. Her characters inhabit our contemporary world and brood like us about their loves, families, and lives. They compose a wide-screen panorama of life in these United States." —The New York Times Book Review
