ABOUT FACE 8211 A NOVEL

Praise for About Face : "William Giraldi has achieved here the near-impossible: he has written a dark satire that is as deeply entertaining as it is thought-provoking. About Face is not only the most enjoyable book I have read in years, but also a profound meditation on fame and the attendant harm it can inflict on the very gifts that create it. This is a truly superb novel, and I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andre Dubus III Praise for William Giraldi: "William Giraldi is a literature-besotted Midas of prose: within its own purpose, every sentence gleams. And beyond this, whatever the shape of his subject, the soul of his subject is the strenuous daring of art." --Cynthia Ozick "You simply never want Giraldi's voice to go away." --André Aciman "Giraldi writes prose that singes as it sings, that never falters in its riveting narrative." --Lauren Slater "One of our most important young chroniclers of anguish and bliss." --Sven Birkerts "William Giraldi ought to be cloned. In a literary world that grows more hermetic and enfeebled by the year . . . Giraldi can count himself among a dauntless few who still cling to what increasingly feels like a hopeless, romantic notion: that language not only matters, but is worth (metaphorical) bloodletting." --Michael Lokesson, Los Angeles Review of Books "Giraldi writes with force and precision and grace." --John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review