At once in thrall to the shimmering artifice of glamour yet also incisive about the tragedy of human existence, A Saint from Texas is a worldly wise delight

Observer

Steeped in both scandal and erudition … It's a story of self-discovery: sinful, erotic, compellingly furtive, in which the sisters live out negative images of each other's lives, a world apart but joined at the soul … There's a gusto to White's prose … Demystifying everything from lesbian love to communion wafers, it's a gourmand's feast of earthly delights

Tim Robey, Telegraph

A richly symbolic tale of twin sisters ... A Saint from Texas makes explicit what was once only hinted at, namely how potent an influence religion has been on the imagination of the quintessential gay writer of our time … Yvette's faith is evoked so convincingly because White has all along been writing with his own sense of life's grace

Guardian

The pagan and the saintly contend in this audacious new novel by Edmund White whose sympathy for his Texas-born characters radiates like a kind of blessing through their myriad adventures – sacred as well as secular, and always sensuously alive

Joyce Carol Oates

Keenly observed and delightfully irreverent

Time

At once funny and moving, this is a ribald novel of the miraculous – a comic but searing exploration of sin and envy

John Irving