ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DREAM STATE
"Dream State is a masterpiece. A glittering, evocative achievement. I thought about the ending for days.”
- Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son
"Puchner's subject is love over the passage of time, shuffling the deck of years and revealing to us, like a magician, precisely the perfect cards. A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life. Dream State is a wonder of character and craft; settle in and enjoy!"
- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
"Dream State is a delight. Every scene, every character, every sentence, is infused with Eric Puchner's intelligence and wit. An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love."
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- Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of Absolution​
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"Eric Puchner has populated his engrossing and deeply affecting novel with characters so complicated and sympathetic that we want - we need - to know how their lives will turn out, and what will happen to the glorious and fragile landscape they inhabit."
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- Francine Prose, author of Mister Monkey
"Dream State is a gorgeous exploration of time, grief, love, and the way that the commitments we make turn us into the people we become. Puchner expertly balances the looming question of our place as a species in a burning world with the eternal human question of which of our choices matter and to whom. Sharply observed, tenderly compassionate, and with an expansive capacity for both hilarity and heartbreak, this brilliant novel dazzles and surprises."
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- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections
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“Eric Puchner’s Dream State delivers everything I want in a novel: a juicy (indeed scandalous) love triangle, a friendship story, a delicious, aspirational setting (including some of the best skiing scenes I’ve ever read in my life) and deeper ruminations about how we search for meaning in our lives and how our planet responds to mankind’s decisions. This is an absolute masterpiece.”
- Elin Hildebrand, author of The Perfect Couple and Swan Song
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“Elegant and formally exhilarating, Dream State is funny and wild, full of wonder, terror, and joy. Here is some of the most beautiful writing that I have ever read. At times I felt that I too was on skis, flying as if in a dream.”
- Matthew Klam, author of Who Is Rich?​​
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“Lush, immersive, devastating, and stunningly alive, Dream State did the thing the very best novels do: pulled me relentlessly into its characters, its setting, concerns, losses, and triumphs, only to let me loose again with a sharper, clearer vision of the world outside.”
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- Lynn Steger Strong, author of The Float Test
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"Dream State explores several monumental themes – love, family, identity, human transience, climate change – but always with a scrupulous attention to the fate of individuals, and always with a powerful sense of intimate connection. This is what makes it such a remarkable achievement - and also, despite the gravity of its subjects, such a compellingly entertaining read. Eric Puchner writes with a marvelous buoyancy and precision, and the generous sweep of his narrative is at once exhilarating, and proof of the compassion that lies at its heart."
- Andrew Motion, UK Poet Laureate 1999-2009