The Broad Back Of The Angel - Reviews

"Truly exceptional...Choice…perceived through a highly-developed, selective eye, and almost breathed onto the page."

-Scholarly Books in America.

"… strange, articulated, cinematic prose, which leaves out nothing, not the gesture of a hand, a noise from the street, comes into its own. He is not straining his medium; he modulates it to perfection."

-New York Times Review.

"Though Rooke calls Sherwood Anderson, J.D. Salinger and Hemingway, he has created his own fictional world, fashioned his own accomplished style."

-Studies in Short Fiction.