Blue in Chicago

''One of the significant writers of her generation.'' Saul Bellow

''Her prose is cooler than a cocktail and sharper than a Japanese knife . . . Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore, which is about as good as it gets.'' Rachel Cooke, Observer

''We should be glad to have her back . . . Howland has the pinpoint vision that can make any sentence into a jewel.'' John Self, The Times

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