KURT ANDERSEN is the author of the bestselling novels Heyday and Turn of the Century. He has also written for film, television, and the stage. He is host of the Peabody Award-winning public radio show Studio 360, and contributes to Vanity Fair, New York and Time. Previously he was a columnist for The New Yorker, editor-in-chief of New York, and co-founder of Spy magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
"Funny, fiendishly smart."-San Francisco Chronicle
"A great American novel."-Vanity Fair
"A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be
the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long
time."-The Washington Post
"Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely
Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden
Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There
are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s
and today."-USA Today
"So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel
alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of
America's most pivotal moments in history like a time
capsule."-Marie Claire
"This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced,
about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude.
Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an
American and, in a sense, what it means to be
America."-Booklist (starred review)
"Fascinating and wisely observant."-O: The Oprah
Magazine
"Exhilarating . . . sober, thoughtful . . . accessible and often
funny . . . an absorbing, well-told tale."-Fortune
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