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PRAISE FOR EDWARD LEWIS WALLANT

“In the short time [Wallant] was writing - about three years wherein he considered himself and was considered a serious writer - he was counted as part of a brilliant group of postwar Jewish American writers - Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth among them. That Wallant died so young, unable to travel on with these writers, is criminal, especially given how prolific he was. But the novels he finished in his short life are all miniature masterpieces.”

—DAVE EGGERS

“[R]eminiscent of Dostoevski. . . . on every count [The Pawnbroker] deserves the attention of every serious reader.”

—THOMAS LASK, The New York Times

“Edward Lewis Wallant is a gifted writer who probes with a kind of troubled tenderness into pools of human darkness.”

—DAVID BOROFF, Saturday Review

“No contemporary novelist was more gifted in the sheer grace of constructing a novel. . . .”

—CHARLES ALVA HOYT

“[A]n American naturalist in the tradition of Dreiser and Norris. . . .”

—ROBERT W. LEWIS