“Brilliant passages and observations. . . . Mr. Holleran’s powers of physical description have not dimmed.” — New York Times Book Review
"Takes the rite-of-passage novel a step further. . . . Andrew Holleran writes with enormous insight and compassion." — Newsday
“A fine, thoughtful novel. . . . Holleran’s descriptive passages of time and place are written with love and precision; his dialogue is sharp and true.” — Los Angeles Times
“A memorable book. . . . Anyone who has ever been in a family will find home truths in it.” — Boston Globe
"Succeeds wonderfully. . . . A very lively and deeply serious revelation of the homosexual world." — New York magazine
"Discovering the place where miraculous begins by poking around in the ordinary and day-to-day, his perfect prose takes root in his digging about in the imperfect ways we manage our lives. One does not ask what with Holleran's work, but how-how does it affect you, how does he do it? . . . This is full scale lyricism, taking us places we have never been before - to new dimensions of wistfulness, regret and arcane love." — The Body Politic
"A skillfully crafted work that confirms Holleran as a figure of major literary importance." — Library Journal
"There is, in fact, a comic beauty in Holleran's despair, a suppleness in his writing. . . That is despair very stylishly got up, and Nights in Aruba succeeds wonderfully at being at the same time a deeply serious revelation and very lively, very satisfying company." — Edith Milton, New York Magazine
"Genuinely affecting. . . . Holleran's deceptively cool, collected prose doesn't hide the uneasy longing at the heart of this book." — Publishers Weekly
"Holleran has outdone himself. Nights in Aruba is probably the best-written 'gay novel' to date." — In Print
