Emergency Exit - Reviews

"My knowledge of Major's writings - the earlier novels, short fiction and poetry - goes back several years and I have great respect for his accomplishments in the past and for this new work of fiction, which I have been able to examine in typescript. Emergency Exit sustains and carries forward the achievements of the other works and will be a very valuable addition to contemporary American literature…I value Emergency Exit for its explorations into both contemporary American life and culture and the rich possibilities of the art of fiction… the new novel advances Major's long interest in experimentalism and the articulation of a complex vision for prose fiction…with an accompanying artistry and craftsmanship which will only add to his stature as one of the vital and important writers in America today."

-Douglas Bolling

"It takes on what I consider to be the key problem the novel faces today - the illegitimacy of trying to totalize experience. It solves the problems which have threatened the very future of fiction."

-Jerome Klinkowitz