At Paradise Gate

"Kirkus Reviews"Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid. "The Des Moines Register"A wise and wonderful book, shot through with rare insight. "Library Journal"Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quiteremarkable effort. "Library Journal" Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quite remarkable effort. "The Fresno Bee" Smiley's sharp insight, the homely use of details of family life, and the mysteries of marriage set this book apart....One to re-read with appreciation and pleasure. "Kirkus Reviews" Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid. "The Des Moines Register" A wise and wonderful book, shot through with rare insight. Kirkus Reviews Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid. Library Journal Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quite remarkable effort. The Fresno Bee Smiley's sharp insight, the homely use of details of family life, and the mysteries of marriage set this book apart....One to re-read with appreciation and pleasure. The Des Moines Register A wise and wonderful book, shot through with rare insight. "The Fresno Bee" Smiley's sharp insight, the homely use of details of family life, and the mysteries of marriage set this book apart....One to re-read with appreciation

and pleasure. "Library Journal"Studded with sensuous descriptive passages and marked with slivers of insight -- a treat for senses and intellect alike. For Smiley, another quite

remarkable effort. "The Des Moines Register"A wise and wonderful book, shot through with rare insight. "Kirkus Reviews"Complex domestic tensions...honest, moving, quietly splendid.