The Bird is Gone - Reviews

"This is by far the most exciting novel I've read in a long time. The excitement comes from the author's skill with language, his fearlessness of story, and his multiplicity of attacks. The writing is hallucinogenic, varied, fascinating. While reading the novel, big names in writing came to mind: Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, even Faulkner. Having said that, though, Jones has his own style and aesthetic. He is not only bringing new subject matter to postmodern writing, but he's also writing in new ways."

—New Pages

"All natural and narrative laws are suspended in the hallucinatory whirl of Jones' cuttingly funny and fantastic third novel...Caustically surreal in the manner of Hunter Thompson, even William Burroughs, Jones brilliantly and audaciously critiques the ironies inherent in our frontier mythologies, racial stereotypes, and inchoate longings for justice and a meaningful life."

—Booklist