“Hemingway's simple style appealed to Edson and had a
profound influence on his own developing aesthetic.”
-The New Brunswick
Literary Encyclopedia, 2012
“Edson's prose is straight-up, deceptively simple in
its style. Likely, it took a lot of hard work to arrive at his pared-down
narrative.”
-HERE Weekly,
2011 (review of The Goon)
“The Dirty Milkman
is simply and beautifully written. Every page is an example of this.”
-New Brunswick Reader,
2006
“Edson's simple, straightforward style, which looks easy but
is really hard to achieve, is one of this book's most important features.”
-PEI Guardian, 2006 (review of The Dirty Milkman)
“Remarkable in its simplicity...”
-Ottawa Xpress,
2005 (review of The Dirty Milkman)
“Milkman’s narrative voice is frugal and unobtrusive; not
terse, a la Hemingway--freighted, heavy--but just direct and unaccoutred,
almost wholly free of writerly wankery, and so immensely easy to read.”
-The Danforth Review,
2006
“It’s easy to see that Jerrod Edson is a disciple of Ernest
Hemingway in his controlled, compelling prose…”
-The New Brunswick Reader, 2000 (review of The Making of Harry Cossaboom)
