From the Publisher
Brilliant and sharp. . . . Wilder’s best novel.” — Edmund Wilson, The New Republic
“Here is a book that provides total pleasure—a picaresque contemporary Candide or Don Quixote, written with both affection and a gimlet eye. . . . It reads like a loving comedy.” — New Yorker
"One of the most American books ever written. . . . Thornton Wilder's best, and most unexpected, book." — Wilfrid Sheed
“A good sardonic etching of this most godless of American ages.” — Commonweal
New Yorker
Here is a book that provides total pleasure—a picaresque contemporary Candide or Don Quixote, written with both affection and a gimlet eye. . . . It reads like a loving comedy.”
Edmund Wilson
Brilliant and sharp. . . . Wilder’s best novel.
Commonweal
A good sardonic etching of this most godless of American ages.
Wilfrid Sheed
"One of the most American books ever written. . . . Thornton Wilder's best, and most unexpected, book."
New Yorker
Here is a book that provides total pleasure—a picaresque contemporary Candide or Don Quixote, written with both affection and a gimlet eye. . . . It reads like a loving comedy.”
H.S. Canby
Witty, shrewd, tough and rough, bawdy and sentimental....Wilder is completely in love with the moral aspects of human nature, whether he finds them in bawd houses, court rooms, country stores, or hay lofts where young ladies are being ruined by accident.
