Praise for Gloria Nagy’s books
The Beauty
“Question: What is enticing, thrilling and can cost you a day or a weekend?
Answer: Gloria Nagy’s new novel, The Beauty.”
Norman Lear
“If every good novel is a mystery story, this particular mystery story has lots of other tasty novelistic virtues going for it—a sense of mischief, sharp social observation, doses of complicated wisdom. The Beauty will have legions of delighted readers.”
Kurt Anderson, author of Turn of the Century
“Nagy imagines the present as a burning building which her characters must make their way out of. The Beauty is a terrific fable about the futility of escape, the inevitability of evil, and the power of redemption.”
John Hockenberry, author of A River Out of Eden
“The Beauty starts fast and speeds up. Gloria Nary is a skilled driver on a very scenic road, and keeps her passenger guessing what’s waiting around each new turn. It’s well worth the trip.”
Forrest Sawyer, NBC News
MARRIAGE
“Many people claim to know what marriage is or is not. But few write about its familiar yet mysterious realm as Gloria Nagy does in this sensitive, humorous, and compassionate novel.”
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate
“Gloria Nagy’s Marriage is brimful of domestic wisdom. Wonderfully and easily readable.”
Fay Weldon, author of The Lives and Souls of a She-Devil
“Marriage is a modern masterpiece. A giant, lusty, hilarious, heart-wrenching saga of midlife marriage. Every page holds a nugget of human truth. You cannot put it down.”
Patricia Auburdene, author of Megatrends for Women
A HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS
“Tom Wolfe, take note…what Gloria Nagy has captured so lucidly are New York fantasies, New York neuroses, and New York melodrama…a staggeringly honest book about a special piece of the American dream.”
Digby Diehl, Playboy
“Bubbling with plots and personalities…colorful, thoroughly likeable characters…fast paced and funny.”
Booklist
“Fabulous entertainment… an essential summer read.”
Kirkus Reviews
LOOKING FOR LEO
“Hip, hilarious, heartbreaking.”
Cosmopolitan
“A story of female bonding…imaginatively drawn characters and wickedly witty scenarios.”
Publisher’s Weekly
“Delightful!”
Los Angeles Times
“Nagy has been compared to Tom Wolfe and Nora Ephron…She’s as much a social critic as a novelist. Her insights are scalpel-sharp.”
Chicago Tribune
RADIO BLUES
“Gloria Nary is one terrifically funny talent Roll over Woody Allen!”
Alexandra Penney
“A new comic genius has landed on earth. Radio Blues is sensational.”
John Naisbitt, Author of Megatrends and Reinventing the Corporation
NATURAL SELECTIONS
“With searing wit and compassion, Gloria Nagy’s Natural Selections taps into the issues of the eighties with fascinating precision. I couldn’t put it down.”
Bonnie Straus, Hour Magazine
UNAPPARENT WOUNDS
“Well written, tough, and glib.”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“Nagy’s style is fresh, her pace brisk, her humor delightful.”
LA Times Book Review
“Written with pizzaz, and insight…It has style and is in no way run-of-the-mill.”
West Coast Review of Books
VIRGIN KISSES
“A lacerating, literate, funny, obscene exposé.”
Vogue
“A stunning accomplishment, funny and sad, erotic and ultimately very moving. Gloria Nagy’s dazzling portrait of the sex-obsessed and narcissist and his eager victim will make readers tremble with the rage and sadness of recognition.”
Gael Greene
