PositivePittsburgh Post-GazetteIn her third novel, she continues her search for absolutes in a relativistic world, and also pays homage to E.M. Forster's Howards End while upping the ante ... Smith is an impressive ventriloquist. She portrays a number of characters with equal emotional strength and insight, moving seamlessly from a 57-year-old British man struggling with middle-aged angst to an 18-year-old American kid ready to the privileges of his middle-class background ...an enormous sense of wit, a facile prose style and the confidence to tackle huge concerns ... Indeed, as the novel progresses, Howard's problems with promiscuity and discerning artistic merit ultimately fade in importance ... As in White Teeth, Smith's genius for creating memorable characters, scenes and relationships makes this an enthralling read.
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