"Irony, honesty, sympathy and clean straight-to-the-heart prose is what informs the stories in this collection. . . . If you're looking for a fine book of stories, The Lover of Horses will not disappoint you."—Denise Gess, Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Tess Gallagher is] an excellent writer of prose who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger."—Bette Pesetsky, New York Times Book Review
"The day-to-day lives in The Lover of Horses are mined wth small, extraordinary moments of epiphany and unsettling insight."—Elizabeth Alexander, Washington Post Book World
