"Bowering has always been an elusive writer. No One turns that into virtue that lifts its pages above the confessional and prurient to a unique sort of discretion that contradictorily enables an exquisite and utterly surprising retelling of marriage's most ancient story: the soul's search for home. If anyone has ever doubted that Bowering is a serious and courageous writer, this book will put an end to doubt. No One is one of those books that readers are foolish to judge until the last page has been read." - Brian Fawcett PRAISE FOR PINBOY "George's adventures and misadventures make Pinboy the best candidate for a Stephen Leacock Award in a long, long time . [it] deserves a higher reward than that: many, many readers." -- The Globe and Mail "There's a great deal of gentle humour in this book, and no overt sentimentality. Nostalgia might not be what it used to be, but most of the time it's pretty darned good.

" -- Vancouver Sun "Bowering's always had a knack for presentation in print . Pinboy reads easily, breezily, as a memoir or a novel, or Spalding Gray-like monologue." -- Winnipeg Review "I'll hazard a prediction that Pinboy will be George Bowering's most provocative work." -- Geist "It's the best kind of nostalgia - the kind that makes you think wistfully back on your own fifteen-year-old life. It would not work if the author were not still infused with some of that teenager's verve and decency and wit. The boy is still very much a part of the man, and we're all the better for it." -- BC Studies.