"I don't believe I have ever read so relentlessly honest, unsentimental and unsparing an account of working-class life. My Father's Cabin is a courageous account of American life that rings painfully true yet is, in its way, strongly affirming."--Joyce Carol Oates "Phillip's writing elevates [his] themes from the topical to art. He writes so well . that his 'remembrance of things past' may give many of his readers something new, something grand."--Robert W. Lewis "A hard-bitten, working-class childhood on the fringes of decaying Buffalo, New York, goes a long way toward rendering freelancer Phillips's memoir into a plaint, an extended ache that finds its way right into the reader's heart. a beautiful thing to behold, fresh air rushing through a scarred system.

"--Kirkus Review.