Seaview

“Even a remarkable dreamer of nightmares like Nathanael West might have been hard-pressed to top the book’s finale . . . Seaview . . . is a very inventive work, unlike any other recent American novel in the freshness of its approach and vision.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Toby Olson is a superior writer of stylish and impelling prose, a storyteller of power, a recorder of human truths and a visionary.” —Doris Grumback, National Public Radio

“The description of the game [of golf] is nicely and leisurely paced; it is suitably precise and concentrated, and the evocation of the players and the tensions that animate them is masterful.” —The New Republic

“Everything in this brilliant, meditative vision of America is there to be lost as the characters, shaped by a state-of-not-knowing, acknowledge their emblematic roles and rehearse their leave-taking. Every day could be the last. In Seaview Toby Olson has sustained with a loving attention to detail one long ending of such beauty, courage and tenderness that it is more than a match for the concluding apocalyptic assault.” —PEN/Faulkner Award Citation