Its an absorbing, well-crafted book, with all the story-telling virtues on display. It is atmospheric, thoughtful and mature, with characters whose fate arouses genuine curiosity. It is fiction of great integrity and vast promise Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Nadler skillfully creates characters whose failures and faults make them comically, endearingly human * New Yorker * Funny and tragic and old-fashioned and brand-spanking new, all at once * Oprah Magazine * Stuart Nadler is a great writer * Time Out * Brilliantly plotted and carefully observed . . . Wise Men confirms that Stuart Nadler is a writer of abundant talent and grace -- Amber Dermont, author of the The Starboard Sea I have no doubt that Stuart Nadler is going to be one of our great novelists . . . these charactersknotted together with obligation, guilt, and lovewill stay with me always -- Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamonts Life in Pictures A completely engrossing novel, one that scars the reader's heart in the most satisfying way . . . Wise Men is, at its core, is a brutal love story, full of surprise and conviction, insight and deception, staggering wealth and loss, truth and beauty -- Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise In his idealism and denial, Hilly Wise, the poor little rich boy, is a truly American character, and the perfect narrator for the tale -- Stewart ONan, author of Emily, Alone and The Odds Stuart Nadler is an elegant writer and a compelling storyteller . . . a story packed with secrets, longings, and obsessions. It is not a book to be missed -- Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers A tense, evocative, page-turning saga of the bruising encounters between two families across the colour line over half a century. Every conversation rings painfully, beautifully true -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room
