Critical Praise

"A pitch-perfect rendering mesmerizing and assiduously researched."

——The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A stately and elegant historical novel of classic proportions."

——The Los Angeles Times

""[Thomas Mallon is] one of the most interesting American novelists at work."

——John Updike, The New Yorker

"Scene by scene the powerful story is superbly told . . . You can't ask for much more from historical fiction except, perhaps, the validity of the material as history. Henry and Clara passes that test with flying colors, too . . . I know of no novel that treats the [Civil War] period in the North more effectively than this."

——George Garrett, Washington Post Book World