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You know, just this past week I was semi-defending Tom Cruise as an actor, saying he does okay in roles that play to his fundamental soullessness...

Nice things said:

"A Week of This is bleak, funny, sad, smart, and unlike any novel I have ever read." – Todd Babiak, author of The Book of Stanley

"A portrait of people in a small town so intimate that it feels like you are under the covers with them. Like Tom Perrotta's Little Children, Whitlock examines the horror and grace of suburban life." – Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

"With this debut novel, Whitlock demonstrates a keen insight into the hearts of those living lives of quiet desperation, and deeper, into the fundamental truths of the human soul." – Robert J. Wiersema, author of Before I Wake

"With his first novel Nathan Whitlock has definitely found his voice ... any of the characters could be any one of us on any day of the week." – Ottawa Citizen

"Not your parents' classic Canadian novel [...] A Week of This might be the truth." – The Toronto Star

"It's as if he's transplanted a group of rough-edged, foul-mouthed "folk" from reality TV to the printed page and completely blown off the shallowness and the stereotypes attached to them. His characters are individuals with beating hearts and wounded histories and sentimental hopes for the future. Before long, we sink unresistingly into their stories." – The Vancouver Sun

The novel is full of intimately suggestive details [...] A nod as well has to be given to the dialogue, especially the inventive and rhythmic way the characters swear. Some of the exchanges are laugh-out-loud funny. – The Edmonton Journal

"[The character of Manda is] an impressive and unsparingly true-to-life creation." – The Globe and Mail

"Weirdly enjoyable ... Whitlock has such a fine knack for observational details that one can’t help but become engrossed. A Week of This is filled with engaging prose about the mundane." – Popmatters.com

"Filled with vibrant, gritty imagery and wondrously colourful turns of phrase ... an ideal springtime read." – Scene magazine (London, ON)

"A good novel can take you some place you've never been. But it takes a great one to take you some place you've been a thousand times and show it to you anew." – Winnipeg Free Press

"From the mundane, Whitlock has pulled something refreshing and beautiful." - Vue Weekly (Edmonton)

"Whitlock takes four simple lives and puts a brilliant, page turning twist on each of them ... The novel ends on Wednesday just as it had begun and it continues in the reader's mind forever. A Week Of This is the life of each of us." – Ottawa Xpress

"What's most impressive about the book is its sense of control ... The pace is well maintained and the days pass quickly. Not, however, without having a powerful impact." – The Waterloo Record

"Whitlock has an excellent grasp of metaphor and simile, and A Week of This is a highly polished novel." – THIS magazine

“Whitlock possesses a strong command of language and an easiness with metaphor; his characters are drawn evocatively, even when they act predictably.” – Booklist

"Well-written and ripe for re-reading." – The Danforth Review

"Recommended." – Library Journal

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