Other Men's Daughters

"It is a pleasure to find a novel written with such intelligence and feeling, a novel that judges none of its people but holds them up to calm and affectionate scrutiny. Other Men's Daughters touches very directly on contemporary experience--it is 'relevant'--but its read subject is in the disruptions and exaltation of the human heart." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Richard Stern's style is the mark of an exceptional and delicate attention. Other Men's Daughters is...an impressive pleas for the private life as a continuing subject for serious fiction...there is urgency and power in Stern's treatment of his profound theme: the necessary end of particular seasons in our lives, the pain and confusion and exhilaration of leaving safe old places when they have become truly uninhabitable." --Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books

"Stern's accomplishment (here, as in all his work) is to locate precisely the comedy and the pains of a particularly contemporary phenomenon without exaggeration, animus, or operatic ideology... In all, it is as if Chekhov had written Lolita.... I would hold that in its own felicitous way, Other Men's Daughters is to the sixties what The Great Gatsby was to the twenties, The Grapes of Wrath to the thirties, and Rabbit Is Rich to the eighties: a microscope exactly focused upon a thinly sliced specimen of what was once the present moment." --Philip Roth

"For years I have admired the elegant fiction of Richard Stern for its impeccable language, its gracious erudition, and, above all, it's brilliant wit. In Other Men's Daughters, to me his most moving novel, these qualities serve the cause of mercy." --Thomas Berger

"Mr. Stern has found what he was looking for in Other Men's Daughters- a final fusion of romanticism and irony, a new leap for our synapses." --Anatole Broyard, The New York Times