“Brilliant and sharp. . . . Wilder’s best novel.” — Edmund Wilson, The New Republic
“Here is a book that provides total pleasure—a picaresque contemporary Candide or Don Quixote, written with both affection and a gimlet eye. . . . It reads like a loving comedy.” — New Yorker
"One of the most American books ever written. . . . Thornton Wilder's best, and most unexpected, book." — Wilfrid Sheed
“A good sardonic etching of this most godless of American ages.” — Commonweal