Select Praise for Jerome Charyn

“Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer—so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.” —Tom Bissell

“Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature.” —Michael Chabon

“Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination.” —William Giraldi

“[Charyn’s] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable.” —Jonathan Lethem

“One of our most rewarding novelists.” —Larry McMurtry

“No one writes historical fiction better than Jerome Charyn.” —Brenda Wineapple

“Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy―a highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain.” —Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

“Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” —New Yorker

“One of our most intriguing fiction writers.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“Charyn’s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words.” —Washington Post

“[Charyn’s] storytelling is off-the-chart wonderful.” —Jerusalem Post

“Absolutely unique among American writers.” —Los Angeles Times

“A contemporary American Balzac.” —Newsday

“[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure.” —Wall Street Journal

“Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining.” —BookPage

“For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author.” —Open Letters Review

“Charyn is an institution. . . . His skill is such that it’s difficult to separate the real-world figures and entities from the characters and places the author is inventing.” —Washington Independent Review of Books

“Wherever he takes us, Charyn’s mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric.” —Jewish Book Council