Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer New Republic . The NY Rev. of Books . The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science. Individual scenes are superbly alive.
Hopscotch is in fact a comic novel, sometimes howlingly funny, always acutely ironic.
Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. The volume itself consists of 155 chapters. Needless to say, this version does not end with chapter 56. To many readers this sounds like a contrivance that is too clever by half. Indeed it can even be read front to back in its entirety.