"Like Garp...[a] startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with a Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."? Time

"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world?You must read this book."?Los Angeles Times

"Spellbinding?Intensely human?A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."?Cosmopolitan


From the Trade Paperback edition.