"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."--
The New York Times Book Review "[Quinn entraps] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition. . . . It was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that
Ishmael was given its huge prize."--
The Washington Post "It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year."--
The Austin Chronicle "Deserves high marks as a serious--and all too rare--effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns."--
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution