Glorious and captivating, with Eggers' signature humour and precision, Contrapposto tells a big and big-hearted story that counter-positions exquisitely the pain and exhilarations of love and the creative impulse. I loved this novel -- LILY KING
This is a portrait of an artist as a young man, but then on through life, to the end, told by one of our finest artists. With Contrapposto, Dave Eggers gives us, generously and precisely, clear and bright, a story about why we create, and how we love -- TOMMY ORANGE
This book speaks to my heart. With wit, wisdom, and deep empathy, Contrapposto asks all the hard questions that haunt and enliven a creative life - about art and beauty, about commerce and class, about the cost of passion and the price of success -- RUTH OZEKI
A book of profundity, humanity and ravishing beauty - the only kind of book I want to read -- ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LESS
Dave Eggers' new novel Contrapposto begins with a simple question: What is art? The answer turns out to be a stunning high-wire act and, boy, does Eggers stick the landing. Better yet, the book is a love story that just won't quit -- RICHARD RUSSO
Contrapposto is extraordinary, a lucid and passionate Kunstlerroman and a drawing of the negative space around the contemporary art world. Cricket, given great talent and passion, is also a quiet rebel: his inability to agree to any of the small compromises necessary to become a big name is what keeps his art a pure, good, white-hot thing -- LAUREN GROFF
Wonderful - both gentle and gripping, simple and profound, personal and universal - I feel so very glad to have read it. Contrapposto is a kind novel; good-hearted, alive and alert to possibility and beauty in all situations -- CATHY RENTZENBRINK
An insightful, caustically funny, at times tragic, and truly profound inquiry into the making and meaning of art * * Booklist * *
Eggers has been a reliably inventive, big-swing storyteller with a knack for mixing heart, humoUr, and a little cultural side-eye . . . What begins as a grade-school act of vandalism becomes a 65-year entanglement of friendship, collaboration, and longing * * Oprah Daily * *
The inimitable Dave Eggers returns with a book about life, love and art, featuring the classically trained artist's own work . . . So begins 50 years of dancing around the art world and each other as they search for love, meaning, loyalty and more * * People Magazine * *