Reviews round-up
Ply
by Hernan Diaz
1 of 6 critics positive
10 reviews: 1 positive, 3 mixed, 2 pans; 4 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“a marvel of breadth and concept”
Ply by Hernan Diaz: Sci-fi thriller and philosophical treatise a marvel of breadth and concept
“a chaotic trip”
Review: Think Burning Man meets the end of the world: This Pulitzer winner’s new book is a chaotic trip
“big ideas and lengthy exposition crowd out the human drama”
Ply by Hernan Diaz review – Pulitzer winner’s dry vision of far-future America
“This One Fails to Launch”
His Last Novel Won the Pulitzer. This One Fails to Launch.
In ‘Ply,’ Hernán Díaz imagines what we become after the world we know
“a Dickensian dystopia”
Hernan Diaz Ply book review: a Dickensian dystopia
A Pulitzer winner’s Dickensian novel set in an anarcho-capitalist future
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