"Delightfully weird..."

"A thoughtful, first-rate novel that also happens to be a page-turner."

"In his new novel, he seems to be channeling (and, as usual, transforming) both Thomas Pynchon and Ian Fleming...in short, just another day in Lethemland, as strange and wondrous in its way as anyplace imagined by L. Frank Baum."

Lethem’s sorcerer’s cloak is so masterfully designed and donned that he passes for a muggle even in his own eyes.