Dewey Defeats Truman

Praise for Thomas Mallon's Dewey Defeats Truman A warm, touching, and richly textured novel; a classic American movie filmed in glorious prose deluxe. --Entertainment Weekly A finely textured web. . . . Like Shakespeare's summery comedies, the novel is about love's madness. . . . Effortlessly summons the feel of a bygone era. . . . A lovely meditation on the interplay between past and present. --Jay Parini, The New York Times Book Review Charming . . . Mallon is a master of detail about a place and a time. --Chicago Tribune A beautifully written and absorbing novel, with richly drawn characters and a wealth of bubbling plots. --Detroit Free Press It's fueled by a sense of period detail so strong that reading it seems at times like paging through an old high school yearbook . . . I enjoyed the wit and precision with which Mallon presents this world. --Boston Sunday Globe Thomas Mallon is a smart, inventive, prolific writer . . . What interests him is not history per se but the way in which large events touch and alter the lives of ordinary, unknown people. --The Washington Post Mallon's prose is always rich and economical. . . . Dewey Defeats Truman is the kind of novel that restores meaning to the present by recovering the past. --San Francisco Chronicle [A] beautifully controlled novel. . . . Mallon has so meticulously re-created a time and place that even trivial data has the force of nothing less than truth. . . . Mallon's complicated meditation on the trials of private and public identity is beautifully fashioned. Its tale of yesteryear tells America a little bit about what it is today. --Publishers Weekly