PRAISE FOR DAVID MARKSON

VANISHING POINT

“Breathtakingly seamless perfection . . . brilliant, high, fine, masterful, deep.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Striking, devilishly playful . . . and with a deeply philosophical core, this novel proves once more that Markson deserves his accolades and then some.”

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“David Markson’s books are stunningly true and wildly inventive. They are unsettling and consoling. They are full of strange echoes, paradoxes, and hilarious stories, and in their accumulations they are great homages to great art, celebrating the work of the imagination and at the same time reminding us of swift time and the fragility of cultural memory.”

Joanna Scott

“Irresistible . . . a marvelous, page-turning read . . . uncommon brilliance . . . a novel of immense drama . . . explosively artful.” Baltimore Sun

THIS IS NOT A NOVEL

“Magnificent . . . it’s almost impossible to stop turning pages . . . my soul was humming.”

Sven Birkerts, New York Observer

“Reads as addictively as an airport thriller . . . masterful.” Bookforum “Mesmerizing.”

Newsday

“Triumphant . . . plangent verbal music . . . altogether wonderful.”

Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

“No, it’s not a novel, but it is a masterwork.”

Publishers Weekly

READER’S BLOCK

“Alarmingly moving . . . yes, you should read this book.”

Believer

“No one but Beckett can be quite as sad and funny at the same time as Markson can.”

Ann Beattie

“One of the most original novels of its time . . . unputdownable.”

American Book Review

WITTGENSTEIN’S MISTRESS

“Addresses formidable philosophic questions with tremendous wit. Remarkable.”

Amy Hempel, New York Times Book Review

“A work of genius . . . An erudite, breathtakingly cerebral novel whose prose is crystal and whose voice rivets and whose conclusion defies you not to cry.”

David Foster Wallace, Review of Contemporary Fiction

“Provocative, learned, wacko, brilliant, and extravagantly comic.”

William Kennedy

“The novel I liked best this year . . . one dizzying, delightful, funny passage after another.”

Washington Times

SPRINGER’S PROGRESS

“An exuberantly Joycean, yes, Joycean celebration of carnality and creativity — an everything-goes, risk-taking, manically wild and funny and painful novel . . . brilliant.”

New York Times Book Review

“Alive with the pleasures of language . . . terribly funny, formidably intelligent.”

Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

“The most honest and stunning Greenwich Village novel of my time.”

Seymour Krim

GOING DOWN

“Beautifully constructed. One of the most important books published in America in years.”

Frederick Exley

“A beauty. A haunting story of passion and flesh. An erotic work of art.”

William Goyen

“A book we will come back to as we do with The Recognitions and Under the Volcano. An unquestioned masterpiece.”

Les Whitten

“Leaves me woozy with sex and death and Mexico. Highly recommended.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“A contemporary, very literate record of despair; all of it in fact seems to be taking place in darkness, in shadows, in the rain, or in the secret criminal places of the heart . . . supremely successful.”

Village Voice