Pitch Dark: With an introduction by Muriel Spark

The long love affair ending, ended, or maybe not, seeps into narrative cracks, sounds a medley of stuttering refrains.... The faits divers in Pitch Dark frequently end on these plangent, mournful notes of heartbreak....scenes depicting Kate and her lover, Jake-at night, for instance, after leaving a party, with Jake's wife also in the car-are brilliant.Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation .... and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions. - The New York TimesThese novels are records of a penetrating intelligence, a skeptical intelligence (but, thank God, not a reflexively skeptical intelligence). They are novels that persuade you of their claims to truth, and ones in which any literate young person in publishing in New York can see a bit of her or himself [...] It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last. - The New Yorker s Page-Turner BlogPitch Dark, like Speedboat, exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness. - The New York Times Book ReviewRenata Adler is brilliant, and her character Kate Ennis is lovable in her complete disinterest for making herself lovable. It's perfect and prescient, a tremendously influential book. - SlateImaginative, intelligent, and originalIf you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book.