"A novel of the first order...gripping and virtually seamless....The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion."--"Washington Post Book World" "One sure way to deromanticize tomcat is to show its long-term effects. That's what Larry Brown does in this fine...first novel."--"Newsweek" "Brown probes the hard luck of the down and out, the grim realities at the bottom of the scrap....His prose has a dark, horrific urgency. ...a real knockout."--"Newsday"
