"Audacious . . . Seductive . . . Charyn has never written more powerfully . . . A poignant, delicately rendered vision."
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

"Smarter than most yet true to the form . . . Daring . . . a mosaic, pieced together from bits of Charyn and shards of Dickinson."
—Caryn James, New York Times Book Review

"My one regret, after finding [Emily Dickinson], was that I would never get to make her acquaintance. No doubt millions of others feel the same. It's for us that Jerome Charyn has written this book."
—William Kowalski, Globe and Mail

"As elegant and breath-taking as the Great DiMaggio drifting under a high fly, this wonderful book is also a fair and clear-eyed account of the god-like, hard-working, shy, idiot-savant of center field whose wondrous gifts and hurt heart are now no longer so mysterious."
—Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter

"An intimate and compassionate meditation on DiMaggio which, while elegantly dissecting his genius on the field, does him the equally important honor of placing no more on his shoulders than he can reasonably bear. Charyn reminds us that everything about DiMaggio was extraordinary, including his limitations."
—David Margolick, author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink

"Jerome Charyn has not only written a superb book about a sports legend but, more to the point, he brilliantly informs us that even the icons among us must navigate emotionally and intellectually through the obstacles of expectations, achievements and disappointments that we all encounter. Charyn presents us with more than a sports book. This is a classic drama we can all relate to. You'll enjoy and remember this book."
—Robert K. Tanenbaum, author of Betrayed

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"A rollicking tale."
—New York Times Book Review *Editors' Choice

"A terrific read, an imaginative evocation of Manhattan in chaos written with great energy and seductive cadence."
—Bloomberg News

"Charyn's command of time and place is masterful: the reader can practically smell the gunpowder that suffuses the war-torn city. As a kaleidoscopic view of a tumultuous era, the book deserves to be spoken about in the same breath as E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review