'A classic...One of the finest American novelists writing today'

'Johnson's talent as a storyteller is electrifying and captivating...filled with despair, humour and moral dilemma'

'Denis Johnson is an artist. He writes with a natural authority, and there is real music in his prose'

'A cosmically charged fiction that combines hard-boiled theology and a redeeming wit - the perfect spiritual tonic for tough times'

'Once Johnson gets his hooks into you - it takes about two sentences - it's...pretty much impossible to stop reading'

'Amazingly talented ... Denis Johnson is one of the few American writers who could legitimately be said to possess a visionary sensibility, a nearly Blakean appreciation of the territory of the human soul'

'One of the best and most compelling novelists in the nation ... Johnson is a master chronicler of wrecked lives whose dead-end journeys he delineates in excruciatingly beautiful prose'

'An utterly brilliant and original talent, a novelist who reminds us just how wonderful fiction can be'

'There isn't an American voice I love listening to more than Denis Johnson's'