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Where possible, quotes link to full reviews:
- "The
Cloud Atlas ...
is, quite simply, one of those first novels that shouldn't be missed."
-- Nancy Pearl, KUOW (Seattle). (The Cloud Atlas also appears on
Nancy's list of "favorite
books of 2004.")
- "Atmospheric and elegiac" -- The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
- "Beautifully
written and astonishingly well researched." -- San Jose Mercury
News
- "A
thought-provoking success." -- Detroit Free Press
- "[The narrator's] natural reticence takes
us through the book's most beautiful moment--a casually executed,
heart-stopping act of compassion.... It's over almost before you and [the
narrator] catch your breath and think, Damn. ...[W]hat stays with
you is the great arc of a small man's life on the edge of the world, and
of sympathy that resonates." -- Time Out New York
- "...Callanan
has produced a genuine page-turner." -- Rocky Mountain News
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"...the novel
proffers a disarming bouquet of story lines that, like brightly colored
wires leading to an explosive charge, reveal an ominous threat while
hiding their maker's logic until it's too late..." -- Baltimore
City Paper
- "Callanan
is a mesmerizing new talent. This heavenly debut means he must also
bear the heaviest of literary labels: that of a promising young writer
with, yes, enormous potential. If The Cloud Atlas is any
indication, Callanan will have little trouble finding his way." --
Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)
-
"equal parts history, memory and vision quest.... Callanan wears the
burdens of historical fiction with ease." -- New York Times Book
Review (may require registration)
- "..a lyrical, thrilling, tragic and funny
read that portrays Alaska with the authority of a local." --
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- "With
its polished form and language, unexpected and haunting episodes and the
powerful metaphor of the beautiful, lethal balloon bombs, "Atlas" will be
the title of choice for those who enjoy serious literature...." --Anchorage
Daily News (may require registration)
- "...riveting...Callanan elegantly tells a
story of secrets and personal revelations, in which World War II is but
one battle." -- Virginian Pilot
- "The Cloud Atlas
is all silver
lining." -- Amazon.com
- Trade reviews: visit
Kirkus or
Publishers Weekly for their full
reviews, though each website requires a subscription. The Barnes & Noble
page for The Cloud Atlas,
however, includes the full text of the Kirkus, PW and
Library Journal reviews.
Booklist no
longer archives its reviews online, although the full text of its review
(as well as the PW review)
is available on Amazon's
page for the book.
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