In 1995 our reviewer, Mary Breasted, called this book a "stunning first novel" with "a landscape that is bleak and miserable but utterly believable."

In short, a stunning novel that attested to its 24-year-old author's astonishing storytelling gifts and narrative reach.

It is a stunning novel that holds together very well.

A stunning first novel that disclosed the advent of a new star in the firmament, and one of the first magnitude.

On the other hand, Winston finally crumples under pressure from the Party, whereas Orwell fought illness to finish his stunning novel.

Ms. Dworkin has given us a stunning novel and a powerful and scholarly work of feminist theory.

Spiotta's stunning second novel, about the dissolution of 1970s radicalism, looks at the psychological and practical fallout from two people's attempts to reinvent themselves.

It is a stunning, heartbreaking novel, the darkest and most modern of his works, largely because it is the most bitter about modernity.

In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.

A strange and stunning novel of eerily shifting identities, ingeniously manipulated by a writer with a gift for ghostly tricks.