PRAISE FOR ROSEMARY MAHONEY'S WRITING

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“What marks Ms. Mahoney’s writing as special is her ability to see, feel and describe in simple but evocative prose … her choice of language is so right and so graphic that one almost has the sensation of watching a film.” -- Orville Schell, New York Times Book Review

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“Mahoney has an infallible ear for the spoken word and eye for telling detail.  Whoredom’s vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery.” -- Time Magazine

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"Whoredom in Kimmage is a superb book, the close and patient observation of a world by a writer whose highly developed consciousness expresses itself with ease, mystery, and grace."  --New York Newsday

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"Whoredom in Kimmage is a delight . . .  an exquisitely funny book --- and it is the only funny feminist book--. . . . Mahoney has an effortlessly pretty prose style, and an uncanny eye . . .  a literary talent that amounts to brilliance . . ." -- The American Spectator

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“This brave and heart wrenching book is the final evidence that, as far as writers go, Mahoney is the real thing.”-- Newsday

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“Mahoney once again proves both resourceful and fearless…[She] worries that her sharp tongue and short temper make her an unfit pilgrim…but these are the qualities that make this such a bracing and pleasurable book.” -- The New York Times

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“…Mahoney’s eye for details and her descriptions of people… are simply stunning.” -- The Providence Journal​​

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“Rosemary Mahoney is one of a handful of nonfiction writers so original and so surprising that I look forward to each new book with an excitement bordering on impatience. . ." --George Howe Colt, author of The Big House

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 “What a terrific and terrifically interesting book.  Reading these pages, my world grew wider, my brain larger.  Rosemary Mahoney is such a wonderful guide through her material. . .”  Margot Livesey​

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“Full of humor and high adventure.  Mahoney’s eye for the profane, the worldly, and the foolish intrudes at every turn, often to great comic effect.” -- The Christian Science Monitor

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“Mahoney has an unblinking eye…a writer’s writer, she has a poet’s gift for striking images.” -- The Washington Post

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 “With each chapter, the reader is newly amazed at Mahoney’s sure stride and stirring rhythm, . . . and her willingness to reveal her own conflicts and heartache.” -- Speakeasy

 

 

 

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