Pitch Dark

“Literary critics have hailed the novel for its emotional richness and structural complexity, and Pitch Dark has emerged as one of the year's most widely discussed books.” – The New York Times
 
“Given its tendency to substitute sophistication for emotion, knowledge for belief, much post-modern fiction has a certain dessicated quality, and it is Miss Adler's intermittent willingness to risk sentimentality that gives Pitch Dark a vitality and gut appeal missing in other 'anti-novels.' ….In the end, [the protagonist] Kate's personality and voice - which, one suspects, closely echoes Miss Adler's own - help Pitch Dark transcend the limits of its structure; they make the book not only engaging intellectually, but also emotionally compelling.” – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
“For ultimately "Pitch Dark" is a love story, a love story about the end of a romance, that does what any successful love story must do: the communication of love, loss and pain. It is a moving, infuriating, tantalizing book.” – Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
 
“Pitch Dark, and even more effectively and entertainingly Speedboat, can properly be called exemplary of our sprawling secular culture—exemplary in both senses, serving as model, serving as deterrent.” – Roger Shattuck, The New York Review of Books