“Amidon nails it...if there’s anyone writing about [the suburbs] now with the clarity, insight and honesty that he brings to the task, I’m unaware of it. “Human Capital” is terrific.” Jonathan Yardley Washington Post

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"This brilliant novel roots around in the contradictions of security: the need to feel safe and protected in one’s own home and town, against the desire to live in a genuine community."  
Martin Hemming  New Statesman

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“extraordinary… Amidon explores the ways in which our motives are never quite our own; the sense that the random is constantly undermining whatever scripts we have tried to write for ourselves.” 
Graham Caveney, The Independent

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"Woven into the thriller format is a rueful account of worn-out yuppiedom...The Primitive is, at heart, an icy parable of the way we live now." 
Penny Perrick, The Times


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“Amidon is at this point: what he doesn't write about you simply don't want to read about, at least for the duration of the novel. And what he does, he does expertly. You cannot ask much more of fiction.” 
Tom Shone, Independent on Sunday.

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"An ambitions, unusual and always interesting novel…convincing and moving…wildly funny and touching…there is no doubt about Amidon’s ability. He is what publishers love most: one to watch.” 
Margaret Forster, Sunday Times



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“This slim volume is easily the very finest collection of short stories to appear this year. Stephen Amidon presents us with a written art form which is truly amazing.” 
         New England Review of Books


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