Press Reviews

• SUNDAY TIMES

  Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere . . . one of America's most original and disturbing voices

• Julie Myerson

  Mail on Sunday

  Oates is one of the finest and most devastating living writers . . . this novel [is] extraordinary . . . a darkly comic monologue of panic and desperation, which, thankfully, allows you back up once it's dragged you down

• Publishers Weekly

  The bizarre twists and turns of Ingrid's life take on a hallucinatory intensity . . . the one constant of the gripping story - the emotional deprivation that has scarred Ingrid for life - comes through with a fierce burning clarity

• Kirkus Reviews

  Oates shows us the paradoxical resilience that sustains people who endure more than we can imagine, and somehow hang on. Her boldly drawn grotesques reach out to us, making us believe in them and care about their fates

• Washington Post

  Hypnotic and powerful. Man Crazy will take you on a dark and wild ride

• Atlanta Journal

  Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before

• Chicago Tribune

  Flawlessly written and haunting . . . Man Crazy demonstrates a distinctly American faith in the tenacious human spirit

• SUNDAY TIMES

  Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere ... one of America's most original and disturbing voices

• JULIE MYERSON, MAIL ON SUNDAY

  Oates is one of the finest and most devastating living writers ... this novel [is] extraordinary ... a darkly comic monologue of panic and desperation, which, thankfully, allows you back up once it's dragged you down

• PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

  The bizarre twists and turns of Ingrid's life take on a hallucinatory intensity ... the one constant of the gripping story - the emotional deprivation that has scarred Ingrid for life - comes through with a fierce burning clarity