PRAISE FOR STEPHEN WRIGHT M31: A Family Romance (1988) "Beautiful and terrifying. M31 offers a big, bold look at the American family. It takes us far away and very close to home. Stephen Wright is a . bright star in the literary sky." -- San Francisco Chronicle " M31 is a devastatingly forceful accomplishment and reestablishes its author as a star of the first magnitude." -- The Washington Post Book World "Mr. Wright's sentences buzz like high-tension wires.

I enjoyed reading every word of M31, literally." --Russell Banks Going Native (1994) "An astonishing novel." --Toni Morrison The Amalgamation Polka (2007) "An extravagantly talented novelist. For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads. " --Laura Miller, The New York Times Book Review "This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor, which America's lapses of faith in its own promise have always evoked in the finest of our storytellers, among whom Stephen Wright here honorably takes his place." --Thomas Pynchon "Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.