Dwight Garner: One senses Moss stumbling toward an ending rather than running confidently downhill toward one. Seems like a good book for a think, you know, without having to carry a lot of plot in your head or anything. There's water on the beach. Summer water. If I've been a lie allowed to ride shotgun on a magnificent cross country drive and the car breaks down in Reno, well, sorry to miss you Los Angeles, but I've got my memories. And then he says, this memory, this metaphor, alas, does not work so well with travel by ship or plane.