"[Raffel] has provided us with a classic work, restored to its original complexity, humor, and gusto."
- Library Journal,
"Raffel has done the impossible. . . . [He] has produced a text which is amazingly true to the meaning and the linguistic gusto of the original."
- Alain Renoir,
"Grand to see this new rendition of a work full of what life is all about and translated with an equal authenticity."
- J. P. Donleavy,