Miss Macintosh, My Darling (Volume 1)
A work of stunning magnitude and beauty.... The book's mysterious readability is effected through enchantment and hypnosis. Its force is cumulative; its method is amassment, as in the great styles of Joyce or Hermann Broch or Melville or Faulkner.... One of the most arresting literary achievements in our last 20 years.... It is a masterwork.(William Goyen,New York Times Book Review)An extraordinary book by a woman possessed of a breathtaking verbal virtuosity. She also has quality of heart.... There are times when her pages surge and beat on the heart and imagination like great music; other times when it shimmers motionless like an ancient Hindu painting.(Lillian SmithChicago Tribune)The prose is lyric, striking and memorable.(Michael DirdaWashington Post Book World)