Critical Praise
"A feast for famished readers."
——Newsweek
"[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imaginationÉ.His reputation is likely to soar."
——Ishmael Reed, The Washington Post Book World
"John Henry Days is funny and wise and sumptuously written...compelling."
——Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review
"Does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world. . . . An ambitious, finely chiseled work."
——John Updike, The New Yorker
"A narrative tour de force that astonishes on almost every page."
——Time
