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What the critics say

Particularly impressive is Sorrentino's protean writing, which mimics a wide spectrum of idiolects. He gets inside the heads of all his characters, and the paragraphs slither between their different minds. Street hustlers, crumpled FBI agents, even Alice's toffee-nosed mother, for whom a dog is 'in many ways, more valuable and satisfying than a daughter': the comprehensive arc of humanity astounds. Trance is an epic, epoch-defining achievement, up there with the finest works by Don DeLillo
- Daily Telegraph

'This substantial book cleverly reinvents this story with a handsome helping of historical and contemporary satire'
- The Times

One of the most humane and haunting novels I've read in years - also the funniest and most incisive evocation of the 1970s - Trance will be placed on the very highest shelf of that art which explains the twentieth century to the twenty-first - Jonathan Lethem
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...the writing is packed with pizzazz. The SLA and Patty/Tania changed America, just for a moment. Sorrentino makes that moment feel momentous
- Scotland on Sunday

one of this year's most surprising works of fiction. By turns indulgent and amazing.
- Boston Globe