"Elegant . . . spare, economical and charged with meaning ." --
The New York Times Book Review "One of a handful of writers in America capable of injecting the necessary quietude into his prose. . . .
Reunion is that rare thing in this age: a genuine work of art." --
Denver Post "A skillful exercise in the evocation of memory and loss. . . . Lightman's delicate prose turns [
Reunion] into a fascinating study." --
The Washington Post Book World "Marvelously written. . . . A worthy addition to Lightman's work." --
Rocky Mountain News "Lightman's prose leaps and twirls, circles his subjects and raises them up. If Degas or Manet had written prose it would read like this. . . .
Reunion is that rare thing in this age: a genuine work of art." --
Denver Post "A skillful exercise in the evocation of memory and loss. . . . Lightman's delicate prose turns [
Reunion] into a fascinating study." --
The Washington Post Book World
"Reunion seeks . . . to plumb life's most complicated and enduring relationship: that between who one was and who one is. . . .
Reunion most powerfully explores the seductions and betrayals of young love."
--The New York Times "Undeniably affecting. . . . Memorably lovely. . . . Lightman's lyrical meditation on aging and nostalgia [will] hit home for just about any reader." --
San Francisco Chronicle "Haunting. . . . He has a Proustian concern for manipulations of time and memory . . . [a] melancholy grasp of the sovereign ineluctability of time, that 'hour of eternity.' . . . Such a rueful consciousness is a pleasure to witness." --
Boston Globe "A profoundly human story, rich in depth and nuance. . . . Lightman writes with a lightness, a lyrical understatedness that belies the underlying depths and complexities of the novel. . . .
Reunion is the work of a great writer." --
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Prose both luminous and precise. . . . The images of lightness and beauty and grace, of complexity and obsession that Lightman conjures through Charles' vision of his lover make us participate in Charles' yearning." --
The San Diego Union Tribune "A subtle and haunting novel. . . . In Lightman's hands, the act of remembrance becomes a meditation on time, loss, and the ultimate selfishness of love. His writing gets under your skin precisely because of its measured and undemonstrative tone." --
Daily Mail (London)
"An achingly beautiful story about memory and the loss of passion. . . . Lightman succeeds in writing an inventive, unsentimental love story." --
The Newark Star-Ledger "Uncommonly rich imagination . . . a masterful touch." --
Rocky Mountain News
The author of Einstein's Dreams tenderly traces the thirty-year-old love affair between Charles, now a fifty-two-year-old professor, as a twenty-two-year-old student, with a beautiful young dancer, set against the turbulent social and political upheaval of the 1960s. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.