RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewIn The Dakota Winters, Barbash has vividly captured the end times feeling of this period in America and has populated his sad and funny tale with a highly engaging mix of real people and fictional characters who take us to its ordained and dreaded finale, Lennon’s death ... The book’s engine is conversation, used to great effect. Barbash’s characters talk all the time. It isn’t that they don’t act or think; it’s that they act and think out loud—thoughtfully, humorously, movingly ... Barbash has given Lennon a captivating voice, catching his cadences and playfulness, as well as his astuteness ... Barbash has sprinkled The Dakota Winters with Beatle dust. Lennon is alive in its pages.
