If you surrender and go with her, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantments, as if in a voluptuous dream

Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates a myth

Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere... She makes us believe everything she sees

Like all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious

In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose

An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.