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"He brings lightness to every scene, while still making the characters tremendously real, recognizable yet fresh. He works in the micro -- the novel slips in under 200 pages -- writing close, with fine detail. There is a clarity to O'Nan's prose: It doesn't call attention to itself, doesn't flaunt dazzling sentences or stunning descriptions. This may undersell his work, which is delightful. There is something movie-like in it -- not that this should be a movie, as his novel "Snow Angels" was -- but it's movie-like in its easy immersion. Cracking open "The Odds" is like settling back to watch a film as the theater lights come down: It plays out, brightly, before your eyes."
-- Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times"O'Nan is a master of that ambiguity that can never be mistaken for confusion. In cold-as-glacier-melt prose, his quotidian characters grow indelible in LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER and EMILY, ALONE and now THE ODDS."
-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer "THE ODDS is a slim volume, sparse in its language and as finely crafted as the tightest of short stories. Some use a barrage of details to make a point. O'Nan trains his eye on the one or two that, in their nakedness, reveal much. The reader cannot help but recognize the rhythms of [a] relationship, disturbed by the pressure imposed by external forces. O'Nan makes points, but never belabors them. The result is an experience that is colored as much by the reader's experience as by this fine writer's craft.""THE ODDS will strike more than a few chords for long-married baby boomers...who will appreciate its honest and raw depiction of what marriage can be like after many years...The novel is not without O'Nan's trademark humor, subtly sprinkled throughout...THE ODDS is...delightful in its candor and moving in its perceptiveness."
-- The Miami Herald "This compact page-turner of a novel examines how much good luck a long-term marriage requires." -- More "Relentlessly honest, O'Nan never averts his eyes from the unpleasant eruptions of the body or soul, nor is he shy of giving affection, admiration, and tolerance their due . . . O'Nan's settings--the bus from Ohio, the bridal suite in the hotel, the layers of the casino, the freezing Falls, the Heart concert--are rendered with such vivid intelligence that they have the verve of the exotic." -- The Atlantic"THE ODDS...offers a compelling window into the way that the 2008 economic collapse has affected the lives of average Americans."
-- The New Yorker Book Bench"[THE ODDS] keeps you on the edge of your seat through the 179 pages of this brisk, pungent journey into a marriage afflicted by the 21st century."
-- The Pittsburgh Post Gazette"The odds of the Fowlers reconciling should their marriage fail may be slim (1 in 20,480 that a divorced couple will remarry), but the odds that O'Nan will write winsome fiction -- be it long or short-form -- are forever high."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch"THE ODDS is a remarkable portrait of a marriage stressed to the breaking point, a husband and wife united and divided by bad luck and their own thorny history. This slender, moving book confirms O'Nan's status as one of the best writers of his generation, a novelist who can illuminate the drama and complexity of everyday life with compassion, wry humor, and unflinching honesty."
-- Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of THE LEFTOVERS "A Valentine to marriage as it is actually lived in troubled times.""THE ODDS is a realistic fairy tale about the gravitational pull of an enduring relationship. In deft, knowing strokes, Stewart O'Nan exposes all the tenderness and tension, the compromises and evasions that lie at the heart of any long-term marriage...Anyone who's experienced those emotions and doesn't confess to seeing at least a cloudy reflection in the mirror O'Nan has so lovingly crafted isn't telling the truth."
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