Critical Praise

"A brash authorial voice . . . tinged with melancholy . . . a sincere exploration of life, death and immortality."

——People

"Wagner's astute portrayal of the follies of the rich is exceeded by his skill at rendering the lives of the poor. The chapters on Amaryllis . . . are worthy of a latter-day Dickens."

——The Washington Post

"Lavishly imagined . . . Wagner [dares] his readers to be so callous as to question fiction's ability to imagine the impossible."

——The Boston Globe