Críticas:
"Hallucinatory ... a cataract of gorgeous sentences, a paean to a lurid, lavish, buzzing and heart-pulping world. ... And its absolute apartness - in its gasping energy, in the ravishing excess of Charlie Smith's prose - is something to be celebrated."--New York Times Book Review
"The book soars and scuffles according to the logic of its language rather than plot; it's a quietly masterful work by Charlie Smith, an award-winning poet and novelist."--Los Angeles Times
"Three Delays is so stunningly composed, so wildly, implausibly, excessively written, that it makes the entire shelf of novels from the last generation superfluous....one of the very best prose writers in contemporary letters."--Rick Moody, The Believer
"Ecstatic and extravagant....Not since poor F. Scott Fitzgerald drew his indelible portraits of the even more troubled Zelda has American fiction been blessed - or maybe cursed - by lovers who are simultaneously so right and so wrong for each other....a reading pleasure as heady as they come."--Seattle Times
"In his sixth novel, his startling, rhapsodic descriptions are mind-blowing, as are his feral, weirdly smart, self-destructive characters, their lashing dialogue, and their insane, heartbreaking predicaments. This isn't Smith's first tale of toxic and nihilistic obsession, but it is his most ravishing, painfully funny, and wildly mythic."--Donna Seaman, Booklist, starred review
"Like Under the Volcano, fueled by every drug in the world instead of mezcal, Charlie Smith's first novel in fourteen years tracks a pair of twisted lovers across hot and sweaty locales."--Daily Candy, Summer Reading List
Reseña del editor:
Courting frequent run-ins with the law and criminals alike, lovers Billy Brent and Alice Stephens trot the globe as they combat their passions and each other, searching for the path that will lead them to stability and happiness. By the author of five New York Times Notable Books. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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