"Brutal, spectacular, discursive, academic, dense, polemic and, ultimately, brilliant. Certainly the most important piece of fiction I've read so far this year, perhaps the most significant work by a new male black author since James Baldwin dazzled the early '60s with his fine fury."

-- Los Angeles Times

"David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident now may be placed on the honor shelf, right next to Ellison's [Invisible Man]. It is even more powerful, for its power is asserted on several levels: a contemporary novel enriched by historic and mythic appointments, and finally made tragic by them."

-- Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"So strikingly original, so shockingly powerful . . . a book which will have a remarkable effect on generations to come."

-- Detroit News

"Beautifully rendered and wildly adventurous."

-- New York Times Book Review

"The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison's Son of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man."

-- Christian Science Monitor

Submitted by Publishers, July, 2001

This celebrated novel about a black man's search for his past "rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the Black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man."--Christian Science Monitor