Dick was…one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced in this century.” —L.A. Weekly
“This work is radically different from the famous science fiction author's past successes. It is a mood piece, a somber study of two young couples…a curious, oddly compelling book….Turning each page…the reader feels an odd suspense and a reluctance to abandon these four unpredictable but somehow endearing people.” —Booklist on Puttering About in a Small Land
“Dick here writes plainly about life in California, the vagaries of love, and the struggle, sometimes spiritual, to survive.…These are real people Dick is writing about, the kind of morally complicated people you might find in any nearby store, and they each have their own dramas.” —Rain Taxi on In Milton Lumky Territory
“[Dick] reworks the territory of soured domesticity (á la Richard Yates and John Updike) in a working-class milieu anticipating Raymond Carver. Decades later, his oeuvre (like Philip Roth's) is lovingly enshrined in our national pantheon.” —Los Angeles Times on Voices from the Street