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Agnes & Sally
“The unobtrusive powers of this extraordinary writer make a cautionary
tale of all too familiar real lives. Meshed in a web of deadpan cliche, this
world is forever all dressed up with no place to go. Mr. Warsh should
be our next President. He really knows the People.”
Robert Creeley

“Agnes & Sally is a fascinating polyphonic rendering of the mesh of daily
life -- written with clarity, calmness and sympathy.”
Jonathan Cott

“Lewis Warsh has written a meticulously schemed novel of those arid
pastures where men and women are trapped between desire and reality.
The tug of their daily life is too strong for the pathetic forays they make
into a larger world of romantic narrative. Unable to communicate
with one another, frustrated and angry, they retire into their impotent
daydreams. In his wry and deadpan way, Warsh emphasizes that in the
contemporary  world he has described, there are no Anna Kareninas, no
Emma Bovarys--only Agnes and Sally and their similarly bewildered
mates, Jacob and Bob.”
Barbara Guest

“Agnes & Sally is a good book, not just because it makes you love people
you might not otherwise notice, and not just because it makes you know
what lives of quiet desperation are really like, and not just because the
language of the book makes you listen closely a humor to the language
we all speak to one another--Agnes & Sally is a good book because the
book itself cares and looks and listens in ways that we all, if we would be
good people, must care and look and listen.”
Russell Banks