About Tom Grimes

“Grimes's voice speaks to the spirit and his vision stretches the mind.”

                                                —Boston Globe

“Transcendent in its own right for its breathtaking set pieces, its
dissection of media marketing run brilliantly amok, its elegiac depiction of
the sad, last fruits of class warfare.  Grimes's deft probing of philosophy
is leavened by a talent for quick, biting humor ... [and] his talent for
the breathtaking phrase, the arresting word, brings exhilaration to page
after page.”

                                                       —Philadelphia Inquirer

“Grimes is a natural ... renders the afflictions of adolescence in both
unique and universal terms.”

                                            —The New York Times Book Review

“Grimes shows an eye for evoking ... a tormented family on the short end of
the American dream ... while making believable a capacity for compassion and
forgiveness.”

                                            —The Chicago Tribune

“All is not Platonic ... here.  Pynchon seems a closer model.”

                                            —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Pungent with the lunatic language of consumer-driven tabloid America ...
Grimes makes a quantum leap into Delillo land.”

                                            —Kirkus Reviews

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