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"A magnificent tapestry...Sanchez forges a new world vision...rich in the cultural and literary intertextuality of Steinbeck and Cervantes."
--Los Angeles Times
"A holy terror of a book...[it has] immense power and passion...half mystery, half panegyric and wholly one of a kind, MILE ZERO is [a] fascinating novel about the end of the American road and the beginnings of a new world."
--Washington Post Book World
"A mythmaking and magisterial novel."
--Vanity Fair
"A great novel of America...unforgettable."
--Miami Herald
"Lush, tropical, feverish...cultures explode in MILE ZERO...Sanchez's fictional Key West acts as a narcotic propelling the characters into a bizarre American dreamland, turning them into human firecrackers."
--Newsday
"An epic of Americana for the 60s generation come of age, grand and encompassing...the scope is tremendous...the language, nothing short of stunning...This is great stuff."
--Houston Chronicle
"A fully realized portrait of America on the other side of Vietnam...MILE ZERO is a brave, smart novel with huge swatches of color and ironic vision that belongs to Thomas Sanchez alone."
--Boston Globe
"Hypnotic...world-class literature, bends the mind as only great literature can...a brilliant, brooding lyric epic."
--San Jose Mercury News
"Packed with stories, crowded with characters, lush with language--a Gothic mystery gone contemporary and cosmic...rich and overwhelming in its abundance."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
"MILE ZERO reads as if it was written in the author's own blood, carved on his soul, plucked from a mind on the brink...it is what the Great American Novel was supposed to be about: the great American experience."
--Toronto Star
"With all of its crank, madmen and saints, MILE ZERO becomes, in its mythical accounts of tenderness and brutality, a great American novel."
--Milwaukee Journal
"Part thriller, part romance, part phantasmagoria...a dense, tropical nightmare of bright sunshine and dark images that stay with you long after its strange finale."
--Charlotte Observer
"A psychic travelogue, a brilliant, breathless ride into the dark heart of a perfect metaphor."
--Dallas Morning News
"A major literary event from a writer of enormous gifts...MILE ZERO is a novel of exquisite sorrow...and terrible beauty."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The only safe thing to say about MILE ZERO is that it is unique. Its tornado-like blend of history, myth, and fable are sure to draw comparisons to Gabriel García Márquez...Sanchez is a linguistic juggler."
--St. Louis Times-Dispatch
"Sanchez is interested in nothing less than encapsulating the entire 60s and all the passionate turmoil that era symbolizes."
--Seattle Times
"Exciting...a whale of a story...vivid and exotic."
--USA Today
