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WAKEFIELD zig-zags   on wheels of comic brilliance, totally flattening a lot of useless architecture   --   physical and psychological   --   along the way. -- Tom Robbins

Codrescu has written a tour de force comedy in which he proves--as did Dante and Milton and Goethe and Mark Twain before him--that Beezlebub is literature's best character. He also confirms the internationally agreed-upon notion that America is the devil's ripest ground. I laughed out loud. -- Mary Karr

A brilliantly inventive cathedral of a book.   No one--and I mean no one--is more deeply in touch with the zeitgeist of this obsessive, lunatic age than Andrei Codrescu.   In our culture, in our literature, he is essential. -- Robert Olen Butler

WAKEFIELD is a hilarious - and yet grievously   sobering - road-trip told   by a maniac and signifying everything. Codrescu   made me laugh over and over again, while brilliantly excavating and   revealing the dark and absurd underbelly of our crazy global landscape. -- Ariel Dorfman

Perverse, romantic, profound, hilarious, cynical, moving, always surprising, and gorgeously written, "Wakefield" is hell-bent comic poetry, and the best kind   of fun: the sort that forever changes the way you look at the world, from   picayune details to the meaning of life. -- Elizabeth McCracken

A dazzling book ... the reader emerges at the end of the journey with laughter in his heart and a revitalized sense of the astonishing mysteries of everyday life in the here and now. -- Jonathan Raban

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WAKEFIELD plucks you from the circumstances of everyday life and takes you on an exhilarating excursion through time and space, through   memory and imagination, and he introduces you to unforgettable characters obsessed with singular follies. -- Eric Kraft

Andrei Codrescu's WAKEFIELD is unremittingly coruscating and immensely subversive, in short, a brilliant comic novel that will give you a fresh look at the homeland. -- Jim Harrison

Andrei Codrescu has joined classical writers Tirso, Goethe, Hawthorne, and Borges as the contemporary master of devil covenants. Like Sinclair Lewis before him, his mainstreet reveals a wildly corrupt, entertaining, loony Odysseus on his picaresque jaunt through popular world culture. Most poignant and darkly compelling in Wakefield is his admixture of madness, cunning, and the ultimate metaphysical sorrow of his journey, worth it, for what alternative exists in a world of diabolical tricksters? Yet life prevails over death, over any pact, in this laughing encyclopedia of Wakefield's wanderings. -- Willis Barnstone