Praise for Robert Allen's previous books:

"Lively and unquestionably gifted prose." -Globe & Mail

"[Napoleon's Retreat] is a work of sustained, unrelenting, unmercifully protracted brilliance." -Montreal Gazette

"Napoleon's Retreat [is] a work of lyrical genius." -Montreal Review of Books

"Robert Allen is a talented poet, strong in both structure and philosophy." -Poetry Canada Review

"The Hawryliw Process belongs on the same shelf as Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds." -Toronto Star

"[The Hawryliw Process] deserves a wide reading." -University of Toronto Quarterly