A wide-ranging, voice-driven, encyclopedic novel that will appeal to admirers of William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Julio Cortazar, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson It's really, really, really big. Reviewers can use words like "monumental" or "magisterial" when they write about it. "Ambitious" will probably come up. "Epic"? "Colossal"? "Expansive"?