“Disaster Was My God is a demanding book . . . but these difficulties are not only compensated, they are essential to the novel’s success. The book’s chaos is true to the mental and emotional chaos of the elusive man who inhabits its center, a man whose ultimate unknowability is perhaps the most modern thing about him.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

“A fiery mosaic of brilliantly conceived and written pieces . . . The adorned texture of Duffy’s writing becomes addictive . . . Among other things, Disaster is the rare example of a page-turner whose pages are richly weighted.” —The Boston Globe

“Bruce Duffy's novel The World As I Found It, published in 1987, was one of the more astonishing literary debuts in recent memory. In defiance of common practice, Mr. Duffy gave the world not a tender, autobiographical coming-of-age story or a slim collection of finely wrought tales of family dysfunction but more than 500 pages of dazzling language and dizzying speculation on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“It is hard to know which is the more outsized—the talent of Bruce Duffy or his nerve. Duffy is a superb writer.” —Los Angeles Times