Reviews

"What a wonderful book--as they say in Dublin, 'I couldn't leave it down!' His novelist's
eye, boundless generosity of spirit, and robust delight in the strenuous pleasures of
metropolitan life are evident on every page of this irresistible memoir by a perennially
youthful gentleman of letters." . --Joel Connaroe, president emeritus of the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation"[Sidney Offit's] latest contribution to American letters is wise, intimate, and historically
invaluable. I gulped it down with amazement. Offit made me laugh. And in just one
sentence, he made me cry .... I love every word. I even love the commas. But most of
all, I love a big-hearted gentleman curious about people who writes like an angel."--Patricia Volk, author of To My Dearest Friends "This astonishing memoir proves that if you know Sidney Offit, as I do, you are no more
than one degree of separation from everybody you ever heard of, and I mean Pearl
Buck, Sly Stallone, Borges, Pele .... "--Roy Blount Jr., author of Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South "This book stands in the first rank of American autobiographies and gives us a matchless
contribution to our recent social and cultural history."--Charles Bracelen Flood, former president of PEN American Center"Knowing Sid has been one of the great pleasures of my life--he is unique in today's
world: a true man-about-town, but one who views his friends and acquaintances with
the greatest generosity and compassion."--Mary Pope Osborne, author of the Magic Tree House series