book has an eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality.� –James Wood, The New Yorker “Re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville’s American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating. This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul.� - O, The Oprah Magazine “Delicious.A comic historical picaresque. � – The Washington Post “Gorgeously entertaining and moving. Matchlessly robust.� – The New York Times Book Review “Outrageous and witty.Another feat of acrobatic ventriloquism, joining Carey’s masterpieces, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is a sheer magician with language.� - The Miami Herald “A brass-band burlesque of literature and history.Provokes a reader’s delighted applause.
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