The first great book of the decade GQ A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defences New Yorker A writer almost uniquely in tune with modern life ... Ferris's flashes of brilliance are many Evening Standard Original, affecting. An almost unbearable love story, between remissions of intense connection and the human inevitability of parting, between the haven of marriage and all that lies beyond Observer At once riveting, horrifying and deeply sad. Fiction with the force of an avalanche, snowballing unstoppably San Francisco Chronicle Hugely readable, engaging, original. What an imagination - and what a memorable conceit Literary Review As hard to pin down as its hero, yet as readable as The Corrections Guardian Immensely readable, a grand American novel New Statesman Seizes readers by the lapels with a story that feels serious and mysterious ... He has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do Economist Ferris writes hauntingly on the fragility of our minds and on the compulsions that drive us, despite our best intentions Vogue Brave and masterful. A writer of the first order Boston Globe An accomplished and daring work Los Angeles Times