" Recovery is a brilliantly written, masterful portrayal of man's battle with himself for survival."-- Chicago Sun-Times "What distinguishes Recovery from many fine and powerful fictions about alcoholism are the steps it takes into allegory and art."-- Los Angeles Times "The powerful statement of a man who was there and never came back."-- Kirkus Reviews "But if Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems."-- The Independent "Page after page, it displays humiliations and defeats. His novel, while written in prose, has the effect of a poem about the desolation of total selfpunishment. Sometimes, not even God and AA, acting in concert, can help with that."-- National Post.