Harper & Row
Pinnacle Books, paperback

Read an excerpt from Blackbird Days

REVIEWS
The New Yorker: "Like the stanzas of Wallace Stevens' 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,' the chapters seem to frame thirteen clues to one essential secret. An elegant and unusual first novel."

New York Times: "Mr.. Chowder is a marvelous stylist with a sincere, unforced affection for ordinary lives... a strong writer."

The Saturday Review: "A tremendously satisfying writer."

Los Angeles Times: "A poetic, finely-controlled first novel."

Chicago Sun-Times: "Ken Chowder has enlivened the ordinary, made the commonplace dance. This is as fine a novel as you'll read this year."

Chicago Tribune: "A superb first novel."

Kirkus Reviews: "Its energies are remarkable and impressively sustained." (Starred review)

Collage: "This novel has a manic hilarity, a liveliness of language and emotional sweetness reminiscent of the best of Thomas Pynchon. Very moving and very funny."

Houston Post: "A young author of polished skills and vast promise comes to us with the publication of this first novel. Chowder presents a dazzling array of insights into the human psyche."