MixedThe San Francisco ChronicleCritics who envied Foer’s early success and resented the cloying cuteness of prose speckled with typographical tricks might now take heart from evidence that the author has grown up, settling into the Great Flatness of American realism ... Rejecting the whimsy of Laurence Sterne for something closer to the spissitude of Jonathan Franzen, Foer now takes the measure of a man’s life, including its longueurs.
