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Reviews of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards


“An unnerving, fascinating collection.”
—O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, 25 Books You Can’t Put Down

“Like Richard Yates, Robert Boswell seems always to wish he had better news for us. In the wide-ranging stories of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, he wishes we weren’t so lost, so conflicted, so stubborn in our misapprehensions. But he's been watching us too closely, with too clear an eye, too keen an intelligence, and besides, Boswell’s real talent, like Yates’s, is for telling us the truth.”
—RICHARD RUSSO

“Heartbreakers from a writer who knows how to do it right.”
—KIRKUS

 “Boswell, whose style and subject matter is somewhat reminiscent of Tobias Wolff and Robert Stone, is a virtuoso of descriptive prose.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL

 “The best book of fiction I’ve read in a long time.”
—DAILY BEAST

“[Boswell] shows a sensitive and comprehensive understanding of the quirks that can shake a person off course: from fear, passivity and pride to external knocks and dings that are easier to spot, harder to fix.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Boswell conveys the sordid but hopeful inner lives of average people with insight and care; his shorter stories… showcase his pleasure in language and invention, and his longer tales pack the emotional weight of a novel.”
—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY


 
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