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Praise
For DAY FOR
NIGHT
“A dazzling tour de force...There are too few actual miracles to emerge from the horror of the Shoah; this humane, enriching work makes us believe in one.”
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The London Sunday Telegraph
“With his third novel, Day for Night, for which fans have had to wait a decade, the New Jersey native [Frederick Reiken] seems set to become a literary star...Reiken is a soulful writer as well as an artful one, and the confidence with which he proceeds is remarkable. ..There’s no denying the essential force of his vision and precise intelligence of his prose.”
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The London Financial Times
“Reiken creates a fascinating, emotionally acute and, at times, mind-bogglingly complex story to which we surrender with delight…Like a master puppeteer himself, Reiken inhabits every one of these characters completely and invests each with an independent life. ”
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Julie Orringer, Washington Post Book World
"Irresistible…profound…wondrous…hypnotically compelling…Reiken’s project is nothing less than to examine the human struggle with evil, and to urge us to heed a natural order that possesses, by his lights, an innate, benign wisdom…We are closer to one another, Reiken reminds us, than we dream."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Frederick Reiken's new novel...reminds us how seemingly unrelated lives can all come together in the net of a master storyteller."
- Scott Simon, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition
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with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition (May 8, 2010))
“Reiken offers a thought-provoking, intricate portrait of the far-reaching, intergenerational implications of the Holocaust. Day for Night is strong and steady…a powerful, wildly elaborate narrative.”
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Los Angeles Times
"Five Reasons to Read and Love
Day For Night"
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The Book Lady's Blog –
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"Recommended Reading" review of Day For Night
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Book Maven Media
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“Reiken’s third book is constructed through a series of chance encounters, coincidences and random ephemera, all of which lead to an impossibly different—yet inevitable—place than where we started. Excellent…beautiful…”
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New York Observer
“It is often said that successful novels need at least two out of three things: good writing, good characters or a good story. That may be true. But in the best novels, like Frederick Reiken’s
Day for Night, you get all three…Poetic and moving, Day for Night is a novel to remember..”
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Bookpage
"In
Day for Night, Reiken offers us a glimpse not just of the manner in which we are bound one to the other, but of the secret life of possibility we all carry within...Each story feeds elegantly into the next, allowing the novel's larger design to emerge organically from the whole, an effect that is at first tantalising and finally deeply moving...Despite its structural audaciousness, there is nothing tricksy about the stories, nor about the human empathy and power of observation that lies at their heart."
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The Australian
“Idiosyncratically
and endlessly clever...Day For Night
commands attention and demands respect.”
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Canberra Times
“Day For Night
by Frederick Reiken is like swimming the depths of a dark ocean – there is beauty and intrigue, darkness and light, and many unexpected encounters. Everything moves in a different way down there; just as the rhythms of Reiken’s writing moves in a different way. You want to keep exploring but you’ll need to come up for air soon. A mysterious undercurrent, apparent coincidence, and haunting – at times chilling – accounts are entwined into this complicated tale that spans time and terrain.”
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Brisbane Courier Mail
“Brilliant plotting, haunting characters, and
an elegiac tone distinguish this dazzling novel…Contemporary fiction at its best – accessible, breathtaking, and heartbreaking.”
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Kirkus (starred review)
"It's an entrancing and profoundly complicated tale Reiken tells as he slowly reveals the submerged connections among his
intriguing characters while sustaining psychological sophistication, suspense, shrewd humor, and many-tiered
compassion. Reiken's novel of miraculous survival and discovery embraces the earth's splendor,
humankind’s capacity for good and evil, and the fact that we are all linked and that much is concealed
within our oceanic psyches."
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Booklist (starred review)
Breaking my Rule About Waiting Until the Book Comes Out
Before Writing About It:
a Note to Booksellers
about Rick Reiken's
Day for Night –
from the blog of Daniel Goldin, owner of Boswell Book
Company (Milwaukee, WI) –
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“Day
For Night does what really good books so often do
by forcing us to see the familiar world in new ways that
reveal its wonder. It's a nifty trick that not every
writer can pull off. Frederick Reiken can and does.”
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Richard
Russo
Pulitzer
Prize winning author of
Empire Falls
Recently
listed as one of “10 rising literary stars of 2010.”
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The London Telegraph
“Day for Night is beautiful, original, brilliant and swift. A novel that seems to be about everything, everywhere, yet wears its ambitions lightly and keeps hold of a strong, mysterious emotional core. I admired every page of it and can't wait to read it again.”
- Kevin Canty
author of
Where the Money Went
“From the dazzling opening chapter of
Day For Night,
Frederick Reiken makes clear that the stakes for his characters, and for his readers, are nothing less than everything. Here is a world, our world, in which no one gets to escape the net of history and no one, finally, gets to deny their human connections. I held my breath while I watched Reiken assemble his own extraordinary minyan.”
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Margot Livesey
author
of
The House on Fortune Street
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Day for Night is now available in hardcover,
audio & e-book format from:
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Amazon
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Barnes & Noble
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Borders
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