McNeal is persuasive on the subject of love and its variations and his writing implies the wisdom of perspective. The Sunday Times of London With a slow, sympathetic meticulousness, McNeal delves into the history and feelings of a whole community and exposes its gentle, ordinary heart. Gentle and bighearted. Like the later stories of Raymond Carver, Goodnight, Nebraska demosntrates that under the callused hands and hearts lies a soft-beating hope. Book Page Tom McNeal's novel is a splendid, rich piece of work evoking the bleak small town.
Life here is a chore.
Little exists to breathe vitality into it. Except McNeal's art. With stunning precision, McNeal offers us a Little House on the Prairie for the Nineties. An enthralling, irresistible book. McNeal gets it, delivering a strong, true look at the lives of ordinary people.