FROM THE PUBLISHER

This tale of a southern writer and the New York editor who helps shape the ending of his novel and the beginning of his future was called by "Newsweek" "a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself".

FROM THE CRITICS

Anne Tyler - New York Times Book Review

McDermott...writes with assurance and skill, and she has created a fascinatingly prismatic story.

Anne Tyler