& Sons

David Gilbert Press Reviews

Praise for '& Sons': 'David Gilbert's & Sons is that book you've been waiting for without knowing you were waiting. Big, brilliant and terrifically funny
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins

'The writing is gorgeous - not only the prose but the power of David Gilbert's observations ... this is a terrific story'
John Irving

'A contemporary New York variation on 'The Brothers Karamazov', featuring a J. D. Salinger-like writer in the role of Father, and a protagonist who turns out to be as questionable a tour guide as the notoriously unreliable narrator of Ford Madox Ford's classic 'The Good Soldier' ... a big, ambitious book about fathers and sons, Oedipal envy and sibling rivalry, and the dynamics between art and life, talent and virtue. The novel is smart, funny, observant and ... does a wonderful job of conjuring up its characters'
memories of growing up in New York City in layered, almost Proustian detail

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
'Gilbert has a rich theme, and plenty of talent ... Gilbert often writes superbly, his sentences crisp, witty, and rightly weighted ... Some of [his metaphors] realign the visual world, asking us, as Nabokov's best metaphors do, to estrange in order to reconnect ... Every page proposes something clever and well turned. Gilbert is bursting with little achievements

James Wood, New Yorker
'Not just a great book - maddeningly smart, mercilessly funny - it is, in all the ways that matter, a large one; it contains multitudes

Mark Slouka
'A grand book, even extraordinary

Lev Grossman, Time