Praise for Kissing in Manhattan
“Forget mere sex and the city... Kissing in Manhattan
features die-hard romantic strivers in a surreal
turn-of-the-millennium New York ruled by the spirit of improbable
happy endings.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Schickler has a wild, out-of-left-field dramatic imagination that’s
really fresh. The way his characters take you, as well as one
another, by surprise is terrific fun.”
— New York magazine
“Like figures in a strange, spiky, urban frieze, the characters of
Schickler's striking debut novel-in-stories pose, strut and cross
paths in a darkly romantic, surreal Manhattan. ... Schickler is a
fabulist for the 21st century, a skewed Scheherazade.”
— Publishers Weekly
“One of the most charming and memorable debuts this year is
Kissing in Manhattan.... Tenderness and darkness are around
every corner ... There are Gothic overtones, bits of magical
realism, moments of true eroticism with hints of danger.... This
tender, lovely book and these love-starved and hopeful individuals
linger like a reader’s dream.”
— The New Orleans Times-Picayune
“With these wonderfully haunting, strange, and hilarious
stories, David Schickler has established himself as a major new
voice in American fiction.”
— Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and Hitler's
Niece
“Schickler’s playfully alive voice is uniquely his own — sprightly,
exact, Herculean in all the fundamentals. What talent! From
beginning to end, here you have some of the most pleasurable
storytelling of this — or any — year.”
— Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng