RaveThe Brooklyn Rail... [a] magnificent and very living book ... We recognize, along with Proust’s obsessions we so delight in observing, Prendergast’s own, such as the counterfactual, recurring and recurring, elaborated once as an \'absolutely decisive negative counterfactual.\' Whoof. A sharp stylist himself, he displays his acute humor in describing the play of countering statement by opposed statement as both impish and astute. We are invited into his text.
