SOURCE: Thomas, Michael M. “The Paper Chase.” Washington Post Book World 22, no. 5 (2 February 1992): 1, 11.

In the following review, Thomas assesses the strengths of A Landing on the Sun, describing the novel as witty, touching, and intelligent.

This [A Landing on the Sun] is a marvelous novel, wise and witty, but I despair of its readerly reception in a culture that elevates Scarlett. Its qualities are literary rather than digital. Highly refined but not in the least bit precious, it is a true page-turner, but in a rather different sense from that in which the overused staple of bookchat praise is generally employed: wherein the business of reading is taken to resemble jogging, a slog or dash from preface to envoi, at a pace either dogged or pell-mell according to metabolism, mind deadened by the relentless rhythm of pounding feet, eyes fixed rigidly on the clock and the pulse-rate indicator...