Man Walks Into a Room Audiobook

Quotes

• “Great nuance and sophisticated prose that seduces you with its cadences…You’ll savor the [end]—and be hungry for future work from this talented author.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Mysterious and compelling…Krauss brings to her work a poet’s gift for seizing upon small but potent details…A novel that…is hard to forget.”

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• “A deft comedy of unfamiliarity…A lucid consideration of the metaphysics of mind-shuffling…Krauss celebrates the anything-but-simple art of human connection.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A meditative debut novel about the pleasures and dangers of forgetting…A chilling addition to the annals of amnesia lit.”

  — Village Voice

• “A deeply philosophical novel, one that strikes upon the nagging paradoxes of modern life…With the character of Samson Greene, Nicole Krauss puts a human face on these concerns, and—in prose that shimmers with intelligence—tells us his potent and memorable story.”

  — Sun-Sentinel

• “A provocative first novel…Beautifully written, intellectually engaging…Krauss has a remarkable feel for what is ultimately unfathomable.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Memory and the ramifications of losing it are explored with all the precision of a CAT scan…Charges bravely into a tangle of difficult questions.”

  — San Diego Union-Tribune

• “Unique…Intriguing…It is impossible to read this book without wondering what you would do in the same situation; that reason alone is enough to pick it up.”

  — Denver Post

• “Ambitious, cohesive, intelligent, precise, and accomplished…Remarkably fresh…Everything in this novel works.”

  — Raleigh News and Observer

• “An incisive novel of self-invention.”

  — Details