Reviews
"A beautifully crafted debut historical novel that is at once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant sociological and political portrait of a turbulent time." Library Journal(Starred review and Editor's Pick) "Bawdy and beguiling, suspenseful and tender,Blindspotis a continual seduction; this is historical fiction at its most erotic." Rebecca Stott, author ofGhostwalk "Blindspotpulls of the dazzling feat of being as sexy as it is political, as accurate as it is outrageous, and as unsentimental as it is moving. Not just a novel with an eighteenth-century setting, but as smart and funny as the best of eighteenth-century novels; Henry Fielding would go green with envy, then buy copies for all his friends. Huzza, huzza!" Emma Donoghue, author ofLanding,Slammerkin, andHood "It may justly be said in its Praise, without Flattery to the Authors, that it is the most Extraordinary Piece that ever was wrote in America." --Benjamin FRANKLIN, author of the classicAutobiography(1790) "Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, exceptingDon Quixote,Robinson Crusoe, andBlindspot?" --Samuel JOHNSON,compiler of the best-sellingDictionary(1755) "A Piece of this Kind is much wanted in the World, which is but too much, as well as too early, debauched by perniciousNovels." --Samuel RICHARDSON,author of the debauched novelPamela(1740) "A good Book is a Lesson to all its Readers, and of far greater use to the Circle of its Acquaintance than a good Man. Such is this Ingenious and romantick Adventure." -- Henry FIELDING,author of the still more debauched parodyShamela(1741) "I will tell you in three words what the book is. -It is a history.A history!" --Laurence STERNE,acclaimed author ofTristram Shandy(1759), and no mathematician "A most inimitable Performance! Who is he, what is he, that could write so excellent a Book?" --John PUFF, the prolific author of very many eighteenth-century blurbs, Advanced Praise forBlindspot: "It may justly be said in its Praise, without Flattery to the Authors, that it is the most Extraordinary Piece that ever was wrote in America." --Benjamin FRANKLIN, author of the classicAutobiography(1790) "Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, exceptingDon Quixote,Robinson Crusoe, andBlindspot?" --Samuel JOHNSON,compiler of the best-sellingDictionary(1755) "A Piece of this Kind is much wanted in the World, which is but too much, as well as too early, debauched by perniciousNovels." --Samuel RICHARDSON,author of the debauched novelPamela(1740) "A good Book is a Lesson to all its Readers, and of far greater use to the Circle of its Acquaintance than a good Man. Such is this Ingenious and romantick Adventure." -- Henry FIELDING,author of the still more debauched parodyShamela(1741) "I will tell you in three words what the book is. -It is a history.A history!" --Laurence STERNE,acclaimed author ofTristram Shandy(1759), and no mathematician "A most inimitable Performance! Who is he, what is he, that could write so excellent a Book?" --John PUFF, the prolific author of very many eighteenth-century blurbs, "A rip-roaring yarn, a real romp; these pals may be professors, but their novel is about as dry as two little boys in one big puddle. . . ambitious as well as fun. . . It's fantasticthe romance novel of your dreams." Newsday "Both frisky and learned . . . a treat." Washington Post "A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. . . Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive." San Francisco Chronicle "At once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant portrait of a turbulent time." Library Journal, starred review and Editor's Pick "A portrait of pre-Revolutionary Boston that is true to the spirit of the time while inventing a couple of romantic, witty, down-on-their-luck, larger-than-life characters struggling to stay afloat in tumultuous times." Wall Street Journal "The authors capture the florid prose and brassy banter of their pre-Revolutionary Bostonian subjects with imagination and verisimilitude." Rocky Mountain News "A very smart book. . . captured colonial America's wit and vulgarity, its sensibility, sensuality, and snobbery." San Diego Union Tribune, "A rip-roaring yarn, a real romp; these pals may be professors, but their novel is about as dry as two little boys in one big puddle. . . ambitious as well as fun. . . It's fantasticthe romance novel of your dreams."-Newsday "Both frisky and learned . . . a treat."-Washington Post "A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. . . Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive."-San Francisco Chronicle "At once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant portrait of a turbulent time."-Library Journal,starred review and Editor's Pick "A portrait of pre-Revolutionary Boston that is true to the spirit of the time while inventing a couple of romantic, witty, down-on-their-luck, larger-than-life characters struggling to stay afloat in tumultuous times."-Wall Street Journal "The authors capture the florid prose and brassy banter of their pre-Revolutionary Bostonian subjects with imagination and verisimilitude."-Rocky Mountain News "A very smart book. . . captured colonial America's wit and vulgarity, its sensibility, sensuality, and snobbery."-San Diego Union Tribune, "A rip-roaring yarn, a real romp; these pals may be professors, but their novel is about as dry as two little boys in one big puddle. . . ambitious as well as fun. . . It's fantasticthe romance novel of your dreams." Newsday "Both frisky and learned . . . a treat." Carolyn See,The Washington Post "A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. . . Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive." San Francisco Chronicle "At once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant portrait of a turbulent time." Library Journal(Starred review and Editor's Pick) "A portrait of pre-Revolutionary Boston that is true to the spirit of the time while inventing a couple of romantic, witty, down-on-their-luck, larger-than-life characters struggling to stay afloat in tumultuous times." The Wall Street Journal "The authors capture the florid prose and brassy banter of their pre-Revolutionary Bostonian subjects with imagination and verisimilitude." Rocky Mountain News "A very smart book. . . captured colonial America's wit and vulgarity, its sensibility, sensuality, and snobbery." San Diego Union Tribune
