'This book is full of loveliness' New York Times Book Review 'Cabot writes with stunning power' Los Angeles Times 'A gentle, musical, multi-layered novel which draws deeply, intimately, and authentically on the locales of Arizona, Boston, San Francisco, the northern California mountains, and above all Death Valley and the high desert of the Mohave' Daily American 'A hymn to man's potentiality and a dirge for what he is ... a sensual experience from which deep truths will emerge, if you let them' Observer