Synopses & Reviews
-- Over 260,000 hardcover copies in 19 printings
-- The Viking hardcover spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 17 weeks on the Los Angeles Times list, 17 weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle list, 16 weeks on the Boston Globe list, 6 weeks on the Philadelphia Inquirer list, 14 weeks on the Publishers Weekly list, 15 weeks on the USA Today list, and made appearances on the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Wordsworth, and independents lists
-- Film rights have been acquired by American Zoetrope
-- An Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and a Dual Main Selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club
-- Selected by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 1999