'A strikingly accomplished debut'
<i>Sunday Times</i>
His style has an enviable suppleness and fluency which offers the perfect vehicle for the moral feints and shifts of the cool crowd he portrays
<i>TLS</i>
Hard as it is to write about youth when you're young, Chabon has done it brilliantly
<i>Cosmopolitan</i>
Mingles wit, sex and fine writing
<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>
His control over his story, the wonderful use he makes of each description, of Pittsburgh itself, are often astonishing...a young writer with a tremendous skill
<i>New York Times Book Review</i>