From pulitzer.org: ""All Souls" by Christine Schutt (Harcourt), a memorable novel that focuses on the senior class at an exclusive all-girl Manhattan prep school where a beloved student battles a rare cancer, fiercely honest, carefully observed and subtly rendered.

"All Souls": Paperback edition to be released May 2009 by Harcourt

Praise for ALL SOULS

"Shot through with [Virginia] Woolf's lyrical, restless spirit... A bold, sharp story about teenage girls, class and illness, about those moments when we achieve the miracle of human connection -- and those when we don't."

Maud Casey - New York Times Book Review .. read more

"All Souls is another solid, exciting work in Christine Schutt's already impressive oeuvre."

"This gorgeous, spare, perfectly crafted prose for which Schutt has become known permeates the novel without dominating it. In fact, the ebb and flow of the more poetic passages versus the intentionally plainer lines echoes the interplay of ideas and story in the novel: narratively impressionistic, the book hits plot points but abandons them to a half-spoken line of dialogue or a reaction, creating narrative holes that shade around the story rather than devoting pages to exposition. "

Scott Bryan Wilson - Rain Taxi .. read more

"one of the best private school novels to appear in recent years."

"Describing the small cosmos around an elite Upper East Side girls' school, Ms. Schutt imagines — or penetrates — an exclusive world at once sexy and lamentable, predictable but still mysterious. Her subject is not any one aspect of private school culture, but its almost intangible totality, the thing that gives a school, in all its decentered complexity, an identity. Miraculously, she achieves this, and in a novel that is a model of succinctness."

Benjamin Lytal - New York Sun .. read more

"Schutt’s writing is sharp as ever, with a keen eye for life’s everyday grotesqueries .. .. Schutt continues to capture the messiness and confusions particular to adolescence, but in All Souls, new terrain refreshes this writer’s astringent voice."

Christopher Schmidt - Time Out New York .. read more