Louis B. Jones is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ordinary Man, Particles, and Luck, and most recently, Radiance. He lives in Nevada City, California.
<br>Praise for Radiance: <br> A fantastic novel. --Amy Tan <br>Praise for California's Over <br> With all due respect to Allen Ginsberg, California's Over is substantial proof that Louis B. Jones is one of the best minds of our generation. --Amy Tan <br> In Louis B. Jones, as in no other writer working today, a sense of moral outrage, that rare thing, is yoked, oddly and with extraordinary power, to a thrilling gift for lyrical prose. --Michael Chabon <br> The people are so human and written with so original a cunning that they are virtually worlds in themselves. --Richard Eder <br> Louis B. Jones is a skillful satirist, who sees all, knows all, but who is never cruel. --Newsweek <br>Praise for Particles and Luck <br> One experiences the characters with shifting feelings of tenderness and exasperation, hope and despair. Hilarious . . . gracefully written . . . [Jones] has created a quirky but wholly real work in which to examine themes of fate and coincidence in a seemingly effortless manner. --Chicago Tribune <br> A lovely and invigorating novel . . . a domestic farce and social satire. Jones writes [an] engaging novelistic equivalent of a unified field theory--in this case, a link between the human heart and the behavior of subatomic particles. --Los Angeles Times <br> Jones is the real thing--a writer with something to say and his own way of saying it. --Scott Turow <br> What a smart novel Particles and Luck is. How good of Louis B. Jones to remind us what a beautiful land--a terra linda--we live in, and to remind us of the beautiful universe beyond. --The New York Times Book Review <br>Praise for Ordinary Money <br> Wonderful . . . an unfailingly entertaining experience. --The New York Times <br> Smart, funny, uplifting, tender, and merciless, all at once . . . a remarkable achievement for one novel. --Los Angeles Times <br> It is not just heartening, but surprising as well, to find so generous and origina