[So Long, See You Tomorrow] is a small jewel of a book. (p. 439)

The novel is so soundly conceived and so brilliantly executed—I know of no narrative which has a structure quite like the one Maxwell employs—that theme cannot be separated from method. It is a consummate success, and it deserves the attention of all who are interested in learning more about the way fiction works. (p. 441)

Walter Sullivan, "The Feckless Present, the Unredeemed Past: Some Recent Novels," in The Sewanee Review (reprinted by permission of the editor; © 1980 by The University of the South), Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 3, Summer, 1980, pp. 432-41.∗