“With paragraphs as rich as koans, this is as powerful a meditation on living life—and facing its end—as you are likely to read anytime soon.”
—Booklist
“[Savage] has created something of a late-life oeuvre examining the interior world of the end years of life . . . and once again we are treated to this writer’s uniquely unflinching, painful yet beautiful examination of an aging, regretful intellectual and how a life story rarely has a logical ending that makes the beginning and middle parts make sense.”
—The Star Tribune
“[Savage’s] best novel yet. . . . It’s as if Savage has rolled Bukowski’s Henry Chinaski, Ellison’s Invisible Man and Dostoevsky’s Underground Man into a more forgiving modern observer.”
—Shelf Awareness
“A deeply felt meditation on the ability to find peace as we age and how our existential dread can be turned into something sublime and meaningful.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Savage’s most elegiac, tender novel to date. . . . For this besieged but genuine artist and writer, grace arrives as a second chance to appreciate, in what time he has left, the fact that life—and art—is never about getting everything right.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Sam Savage has crafted a rich and thought-provoking small masterpiece.”
—Shelf Unbound
“In elegant, lively prose, [Savage] gives voice to the voiceless . . . and the marginalized.”
—ForeWord Reviews
“Savage’s novels are tragicomic, funny, outrageous, unlikely, fantastic . . . and eminently readable.”
—WOSU Columbus Public Radio
“Savage’s writing is full of wickedly off-beat humor while disquietingly delivering spot-on characters who represent the ails of America (and American fiction).”
—Hot Metal Bridge
“The startling clarity and unrestrained candor of Nivenson’s remarks yield a deeply registering performance. . . . The Way of the Dog may not be Savage’s most charming book, but it is his most compelling.”
—On the Seawall
