tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52092328112675807452012-02-16T11:21:52.625-08:00Drew Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532685795236876779noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5209232811267580745.post-8521065900089255532009-09-18T13:03:00.001-07:002010-08-12T07:40:01.890-07:00<div style="text-align: left;color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px; font-family:georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">[A] precision portrait of men, women, marriage, parenthood, and love... a sumptuous taste of how we live now... Perry brings it all to life in such remarkably pinpoint, hilarious, and convincing fashion that you revel in spending more than 300 pages here. It's difficult to come across a sentence, let alone a word, that doesn't smack tone-perfect and also refreshingly colloquial, candid, real.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">”</span></span></span></div><i><blockquote><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">—</span><i><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/05/16/comic_clear_eyed_look_at_the_way_it_is/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;">The Boston Globe</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></blockquote><br /><div style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“This is a richly imagined, beautifully written, and completely absorbing work of fiction.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I found myself spellbound, turning pages well past my bedtime.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What a fine, fine book.”</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">—Tim O'Brien, winner of the National Book Award and author of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Things They Carried</span></span></i></blockquote></div></span></span></div></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5209232811267580745-852106590008925553?l=www.drewperry.net' alt='' /></div>Drew Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532685795236876779noreply@blogger.com