Critical Praise

"[An] ambitious book... Dixon has fashioned his make-believe to be relevant, offered a satisfying harvest from early planted seeds, and embedded some fine intellectual levity."

—The Globe and Mail

"The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is a darkly comedic paen to friendship, love, and, most of all, books... Linguistically, thematically, emotionally --- every facet of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal sprawls and is loaded with inter-textual references and winking narrative play that’s fun and engrossing."

—Russ Marshalek, BabyGotBooks.com

"This sweet, unpredictable novel is fun to read and quietly undemanding. Dixon’s writing has a good comic assurance and he adroitly conjures all manner of strangeness in his tale of an elite, eccentric women’s book club in Montreal... Ingenious."

—Time Out

"A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Dixon’s first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheic, bibliophilic, cryptological, political, and archaeological rant of the first order. It’ll blow your mind."

—Michael Redhill, author of Consolation

"Sean Dixon is a worthy successor to some of Canada’s foremost authors. He is in possession of an imaginative gift akin to Timothy Findley, the erudition and style of Robertson Davies and the off beat humor of Mordecai Richler. And like them, he is deserving of recognition and a following south of the border."

—Bruce Bauman, author of And The Word Was