Divorce, disease, death and depression pervade this ironic comedy of derangement in decisive detail . . . A harrowing and ultimately rapturous noevl.
All fiction offers escape, some from thought, some into it.
Feld returns with an eloquent novel built from the bricks of plain life-as people climb up out of the ashes of guilt and despair. . . . Graceful, authentic, knowledgeable fiction, abundant with wry pleasures. At the age of twenty-two, Joel Zwilling is emerging as a literary wunderkind. He has published a successful first novel, and his story about a widowed writer is about to be featured in a leading magazine. Yet just before the piece appears, Joel's real wife and daughter are killed in a car accident.