Reviews
"So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." -- Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review "Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt." -- Anatole Broyard, The New York Times "I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight." -- Doris Lessing, I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight., " So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn' t want to miss any pleasure it might yield." - - Le Anne Schreiber, "The New York Times Book Review" " Here' s a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt." - - Anatole Broyard, "The New York Times" " I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly-- this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight." - - Doris Lessing, "So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." --Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review "Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life . . . You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt." --Anatole Broyard, The New York Times "I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly-this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight." --Doris Lessing, "So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield."-Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review "Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt."-Anatole Broyard, The New York Times "I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly-this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight."-Doris Lessing, Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only saints felt.
