RaveThe Minneapolis Star Tribune...[a] remarkably vivid and compelling adventure novel ... While Jiles is unafraid of sentiment, her ability to keep the plot tense and the dialogue understated creates a delicious tale of constant surprises ... Jiles’ prose sparkles. It is at the same time lush and direct ... Mysterious and masterful, “News of the World” delivers the same sense of exotic wonder to us that the Captain’s articles bring to the frontier Texans.
Julian Barnes
RaveThe Minneapolis Star TribuneIn Barnes' adept hands, the work is a tense and elegant study of terror, shame and cowardice, of a celebrated artist capitulating to power, yet on his own terms ... Barnes interweaves the painful and the sublime to achieve an epic orchestral effect — Shostakovich shedding his sense of purity and honor over the course of four decades to preserve his art.
