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Reviews:

Jul 2013

Review Of: By: Hannah Gersen

Published in: The Millions
Love is a Skill: Andrew Solomon’s Long Path from Fiction to Non-Fiction

A Stone Boat is a small, elegant novel that asks a big, thorny question: how do we love unconditionally, but not blindly? It’s a question worthy of any genre, not to mention a career.

Mar 2004

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Published in: New Zealand Herald
A Stone Boat

The novel's tone is intimate and deeply moving, with so many well-crafted turns of phrase that I found it, in my delight, almost impossible to put down.

May 1995

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Published in: Independent
A Stone Boat

Solomon's story, of a young man loving his mother and losing her to cancer, sidesteps the cliches... Solomon's greatest triumph in this first novel is his sympathy.

Oct 1994

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Published in: Publishers Weekly
A Stone Boat

The contrast between the idyllic existence money can buy and the inexorable ugliness of death is poignantly obvious. Harry's struggle to cope with his parent's impending death is observed with passion and conviction.

Oct 1994

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Published in: Kirkus Reviews
A Stone Boat

Love and death make dramatic entrances in this elegiac first novel... An elegant and moving examination of a difficult subject.

Jan 1994

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Published in: New York Times
A Stone Boat

Andrew Solomon's first novel, "A Stone Boat," is a shimmering remembrance of things past and a meditation on love and death.

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