迷人的…引人入胜的…作家有能力创造出这样的角色：他们迫使我们无法立即做出评断，而是感叹于他们的绝对。坚硬的现实并不是作者的仁慈。（《纽约时报》书评）
Elizabeth Tallent的风格是与众不同的，这样的写作实在是我很欣赏的。并不浮夸，满是复杂的思考和感知，如此清晰又如此宏大。（Tessa Kadley，著有《Clever Girl》）
在她的第四部作品中，Tallent通过10则精巧的故事探索了人与人之间的空间…她的作品是对于欲望和失望的发人深省的研究。（Publishers Weekly）
Tallent的文字让人放心，阅读她的作品绝对是一种乐趣…一系列宏伟而多样的故事，因为Tallent慷慨的想象力而使书中的角色令人同情。（Kirkus Reviews）
2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists!
2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists!
“[Tallent] brings an immense complexity and dimension to the domestic affairs of the heart. At times, these stories almost veer toward the epic, emotionally speaking, and are reminiscent of the muscular, sharp-eyed narratives of the late Robert Stone.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Elizabeth Tallent is, and always has been, a vivid, meticulous, and astutely inviting writer. These new stories vitally tell us how things are for us, in the most acute and memorable ways. Her ear is perfect; her gaze searing and unmistakable.” (Richard Ford)
“Enchanting. . . . Immediately engaging. . . . The ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality isn’t the result of any special kindness or goodness on the part of the author. (New York Times Book Review)
“Elizabeth Tallent’s style is so distinctive, and it’s the kind of writing I so enjoy, never obvious, full of complex thought and perception, so boldly ambitious.” (Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl)
“In her fourth collection, Tallent explores the spaces between people through 10 expertly crafted stories. . . . Tallent’s collection offers a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Tallent’s assured voice is a pleasure to follow through this book. . . . An ambitious and wide-ranging set of stories that creates empathy for most of its characters due to Tallent’s generous imagination.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Driving, furious, erotic, gilded, the sentences flying at you like arrows...Her book is a meditation on the state of marriage.” (Tin House)
“MENDOCINO FIRE throws sparks.” (Vanity Fair)
“Tallent’s characters are most nearly themselves, because of or in spite of love, and that is the rich truth of this book.” (Oregonian)
“Excellent. . . . In these stories, [Tallent] continues to explore relationships on the brink of transformation.” (San Jose Mercury News)
“A good short story is a visceral thing, but it is rare to find stories as elegant, as perfectly made as Elizabeth Tallent’s, that put a scare into us. Tallent is a magician: her characters get sawed in half by life and stand up whole.” (Valerie Trueblood, author of Search Party and Seven Loves)
“The characters in these stories have been around the block a few times. They are often exes. But they are no match for Tallent, who, in a finely articulated style, shows herself to be quite deft at throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery of complacence.” (Carol Anshaw, author of Carry the One)
“The first pleasure here is the glitter and darkness of the prose only Tallent can produce; but the profounder gift in these stories is the author’s empathy, a tireless empathy, her knowledge of her characters’ peculiar entitlements and pangs and assumptions.” (Louis B. Jones, author of Innocence and Ordinary Money)