Reviews
"Funny, fiendishly smart."-- San Francisco Chronicle "A great American novel."-- Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long time." --The Washington Post "Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s and today." --USA Today "So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of America's most pivotal moments in history like a time capsule." --Marie Claire "This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America."-- Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating and wisely observant." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Exhilarating . . . sober, thoughtful . . . accessible and often funny . . . an absorbing, well-told tale."-- Fortune, "Funny, fiendishly smart."-- San Francisco Chronicle "A great American novel."-- Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long time." --The Washington Post "Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s and today." --USA Today "So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of America's most pivotal moments in history like a time capsule." --Marie Claire "This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America."-- Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating and wisely observant." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Exhilarating . . . sober, thoughtful . . . accessible and often funny . . . an absorbing, well-told tale."-- Fortune From the Hardcover edition., Praise for TRUE BELIEVERS "This is Andersen's best book to date, which makes it a great American novel ." - Jon Robin Baitz, Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel you'll want to check out ."- The Washington Post " Fascinating and wisely observant ..."- O! The Oprah Magazine "Fiendishly smart, insightful and joyously loopy novel." - The San Francisco Chronicle "Andersen creates spellbinding suspense . This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America. " - Booklist , starred review "Kurt Andersen's best yet. The man is operating on some far-out level that bends time and space to his will. T rue Believers hits all the right notes and reads like a goddamn dream ." - Gary Shteyngart "This witty, imaginative novel is one part bildungsroman, one part political thriller and one part contemplation on age - and in all aspects wonderful reading. " - Scott Turow Brain Pickings calls it one of the two "essential" summer-of-2012 novels "An unmitigated success...plot is nigh-on perfect ."- The Winnipeg Free Press, "Funny, fiendishly smart."- San Francisco Chronicle "A great American novel."- Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long time." -The Washington Post "Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s and today." -USA Today "So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of America's most pivotal moments in history like a time capsule." -Marie Claire "This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America."- Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating and wisely observant." -O: The Oprah Magazine "Exhilarating . . . sober, thoughtful . . . accessible and often funny . . . an absorbing, well-told tale."- Fortune From the Hardcover edition., "Funny, fiendishly smart."-- San Francisco Chronicle "A great American novel."-- Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long time." --The Washington Post "Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s and today." --USA Today "So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of America's most pivotal moments in history like a time capsule." --Marie Claire "This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America."-- Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating and wisely observant." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Exhilarating . . . sober, thoughtful . . . accessible and often funny . . . an absorbing, well-told tale."-- Fortune
