In the June 22 NYT, Michiko Kakutani calls  "Mr. Peanut" by Adams Ross, "a dark, dazzling and deeply flawed novel that announces the debut of an enormously talented writer." A major flaw:"..."the novel’s wildly ambitious, Nabokovian architecture — and its author’s heavy use of theme and variation — feels self-conscious and contrived."

 

Robert H. Boyle