In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story * Stephen King * Superb... A brilliant, beautiful novel * Sunday Times * Absorbing and captivating * Guardian * Quiet Dell has all the elements of a murder mystery, but its emotional scope is larger and more complex. It combines a strange hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence. It offers a portrait of rural America in a time of crisis and dramatises the lives of a number of characters who are fascinating and memorable * Colm Tóibín * An extraordinary book... the best she has written * Observer * Compelling... Richly imagined... Phillips' achievement is to reveal how intimately cruelty and kindness unfold * New Yorker * There is a glowing beauty to the book's brave, generous version of history * Wall Street Journal * An extraordinary achievement, a mesmerizing blend of fact and fiction that borrows from the historical record, including trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, but is cloaked in the shimmering language of a poet * Associated Press * Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it * Vanity Fair * Phillips' prose is as haunting as the questions she raises about the natures of sin, evil and grace * Kirkus, starred review * Phillips' plot is engaging, romantic and fecund; her characters are beautiful, accomplished and good - except for the bad guy, who is very bad indeed * Publishers Weekly * The truth of all of Phillips' characterizations is what lies behind this careful novel's compelling momentum * Booklist * Phillips' effort to do justice - aesthetic and moral - to the victims feels bold and honorable... moving, even transporting... Phillips allows her own ample gifts to soar * Boston Globe * Sometimes eerie and dreamlike, others grippingly tense, yet warmly human, always written with beauty and emotional power, Quiet Dell is a virtuoso performance by a highly original writer * Tampa Bay Times * Quiet Dell is a smart combination of true crime, history and fiction tied together with Phillips' seamlessly elegant writing... As the book proceeds to its dark conclusion, Emily offers readers a glimpse of light * Miami Herald *
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