One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels -- Katy Waldman - New Yorker

Brilliant, multi-layered, thrilling ... a burning love letter with icy observation at its core - Svenska Dagbladet

Stridsberg's evocation of Valerie Solanas conjures images that are poetic and enchanting - Dagens Nyheter

Stridsberg excels in mixing documented facts with a liberated fiction in a feverish, vibrant prose - Nordic Council Award

The thrilling spectacle, the muscles and bone, of a vibrant, living text ... This novel of rare strength unleashes an irresistible seduction - Le Monde

Impressive and bewitching, The Faculty of Dreams is unquestionably one of the revelations of the publishing season - Le Magazine litte´raire

At once a hagiography, an exercise in admiration and a portrait of a marginal America, this passionate novel reveals the fate of the woman who wanted to shoot Andy Warhol - Lire

Urgent and poetic. ... fascinating literature - Bayerischer Rundfunk

Stridsberg's language is brilliant; feverish yet clear. The depiction of the milieus of American workers, academics and artists from the 1940s to the 1980s is superb, but at the centre is the tender yet razor-sharp insight into the mind of a limitlessly fascinating individual - Deutschland Radio Kultur

This is an affectionate and incisive, compassionate and courageous book - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Simply a very, very good debut novel. It discusses our human longing to function as smoothly as machines, our contempt for weakness, and the role of the weak in a world of achievement - Dagens Nyheter

A stunning, shocking novel, bringing to life one of the most controversial, forgotten and fascinating characters of second-wave feminism.