‘Stuart Nadler is a great writer’ – Time Out

'Perfectly crafted' – Financial Times

The Book of Life is comprised of seven stunning tales about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption.

They show us at our most vulnerable and our most miraculous. They show moments of grief and betrayal as well as humour and happiness. They show us the best of people and the worst. They show us life.

Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing, is a writer in the great American tradition, but one who emerges from the shadows – of Updike, of Bellow, of Cheever – and stakes his own bold and exciting claim.

‘Impressive stories’ – Guardian

Good, old-fashioned, gorgeously-crafted tales * Dazed & Confused *
Perfectly crafted . . . Like all great short story writers, Nadler can make his characters whole with the minimal amount of gesturing * Financial Times *
Rueful melancholy and caustic humour permeate these impressive stories . . . The tone is set by the brilliant, bombastic opener * Guardian *
I found these stories utterly absorbing; so perceptive, so crackling with wit, so sad -- Belinda McKeon, author of Solace
Stuart Nadler is a great writer * Time Out *

Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, Rooms for Vanishing and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. He lives in New England, USA.