Abe Ravelstein is the American mind and Bellow its finest living (thank God) voice - John Sutherland Sunday Times. Bellows return with Ravelstein to an earlier freer more voice-driven exuberance is an astonishment to me. I have to keep reminding myself that the author was born not in 1950 but in 1915 - Martin Amis in Experience. Full of the old cascading power...His people are embodied with souls; they wear their stretched essences on their bodies and it is Bellows delight to as it were read their souls through their surfaces as a Victorian phrenologist might have read the skull - James Wood Guardian. A late quartet by a master - The Telegraph.