“At points I had the sense of being in an American restaurant where each portion is large enough to feed an entire family. But Fox is such a good writer that interest never flags.”
“Mr. Fox succeeds in offering us a figure whose inner and outer struggles, whose strengths and weaknesses, do somehow reach across the centuries and touch something profoundly human.”
“A page-turner that might last the whole winter long, come spring you'll be all the
more enlightened. It's a subtle meditation to the end, one that seeps through
painstaking history and mindful analysis.”
