"As close to a masterpiece as American writing is going to come these days."
--- Raleigh News & Observer
"Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task - and has done extraordinarily well by it...a Whitmanesque foray into America : into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul."
--- The New York Times Book Review
"A rare and extraordinary book...heart-stopping...spellbinding."
--- San Francisco Chronicle