RaveThe Irish Times...a major event in American letters ... The parallel America – the commercial project founded on tobacco and lubricated by booze – is also conditioned into his prose, which is sometimes streetwise and tough, and always informal, light, elegant and miraculously tender ... terribly moving ... a proper page-turner ... The last words of the story – the last words of this gorgeous collection, immanent with the warmth of its author’s spirit.
