Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"
"Schwartz pulls of a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"
Praise for THE COMMONER
"Schwartz pulls of a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Schwartz's renderings of the royal family are not only believable but absorbing.... well nuanced and tightly executed.... A moving portrait of women living the most interior of lives."
-"Bookpage"
Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"
JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ is the author of the novels Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days, and Reservation Road, which is being made into a film based on his screenplay, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Connelly. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.