��ambling and generous . . . it reads at times like a John Irving novel touched up by Roy Blount Jr. . . . Sweet, sad, and refreshing.����em>New York Times Book Review
��Edgar��] soul is as spotless as John Wayne�� .45, and so is Udall�� sharp and rangy prose. His similes sting, his sentences go bang, and his chapters roll like the wagon wheels across the harsh Mormon desert of right and wrong.����em>GQ
��xtraordinary. . . . There are pages that are just fall-down funny. . . . It�� like nothing else you��e ever read.����em>Newsweek
��ibrant, big-hearted. . . . A poignant, picaresque odyssey.����em>Chicago Tribune
�� marvelous first novel. . . . An adept mix of humor and pathos.����em>Los Angeles Times
��n ingenious tale [that] takes its heart from Dickens and its soul from America�� great outlaw West.����em>Elle