ErrolLincolnUys

• Rated 5 stars

“Tragic, evocative and sadly all too true.”

ErrolLincolnUys wrote this review Wednesday, December 12 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“A rivetting beginning, middle and then the end...I see I am not the only reader who felt Mr. Harvey fell into a hollow abyss.”

ErrolLincolnUys wrote this review Tuesday, September 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“Marvelous, poignant and beautifully written, The Scent of God is a rivetting personal journey revealing Bissel's passion for the two great loves in her life, earthly and spiritual. A memoir filled with joys and heart-wrenching sorrows, yet always uplifting for the courage and selflessness portrayed in the writer's acts and vision..”

ErrolLincolnUys wrote this review Tuesday, August 14 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 0 stars

“As the writer of Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression may I share a few reviews of the book. You can see more at www.erroluys.com

THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Riding the Rails" is a riveting document of hope and hardship during one of this nation's bleakest eras. For all that has been written about the Depression, the travails of those under the age of 18 have been sorely underrepresented. Gripping and well-researched, this book by Errol Lincoln Uys is a companion piece to the award-winning documentary of the same name. With more than 500 interviews and stunning archival photographs by Walker Evans, Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, Uys so thoroughly recreates the wretched conditions the boxcar boys and girls endured that the reader can all but hear the cadence of the trains on the tracks and the lonesome wail at every whistle stop."

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL
This is an elegantly presented and quietly moving collection of firsthand reminiscences, capturing a unique moment in American history. Uys, a veteran writer and editor, is the author of the historical novel Brazil. Enthusiastically recommended for all public libraries.

AMAZON.COM
Whether you're a "gaycat" (novice rider) or a "dingbat" (seasoned hobo), Riding the Rails is entertaining and inspiring, recapturing a time when the country was "dying by inches." -- Sunny Delaney, History Editor -- An Amazon "Ten Best History Books of the Year " Choice
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ErrolLincolnUys wrote this review Tuesday, July 17 2007. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )

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“As the writer of Brazil, may I share a few of my favorite reviews. You can read more reviews at www.erroluys.com

"Uys has accomplished what no Brazilian author from José de Alencar to Jorge Amado was able to do. He is the first to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes, from the indigenous civilization and the El Dorado myth, everything converging like the segments of a rose window to that reborn and metamorphosed myth that is Brasilia. He is the first outsider to see us with total honesty and sympathy and full empathy with the decisive moments in our history and their spiritual meaning. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay are unsurpassed in our literature and evoke the great passages of War and Peace." -- Professor Wilson Martins, Jornal do Brasil

"Pulsing with vigor, this is a vast novel to tell the story of a vast country. Uys depicts Brazil’s evolution from colony to empire to republic. Lacing the tale together are two families: the Cavalcantis, planters and slave owners; and representing another fundamental social stream, the da Silvas, prospectors, adventurers, seekers of El Dorado.

The principal characters, both real and imaginary are hard to forget. Among them: the great Indian warrior, Aruaña; Secundus Proot, a Dutch artist who wanders into the interior to paint Indians; Black Peter, a freed African slave who takes murderous revenge on his persecutors; Francisco Solano López, doomed and gallant president of Paraguay; Anthony the Counselor, visionary rebel.

Uys re-creates history almost entirely “at ground level,” even more densely than Michener, through the eyes and actions of an awesome cast of characters.-- Publishers Weekly

"A masterpiece… Brazil has the look and feel of an enchanted virgin forest, a totally new and original world for the reader-explorer to discover." -- L’Express, Paris
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ErrolLincolnUys wrote this review Tuesday, July 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )