"A new novel by a widely-published author.The idea for this novel came from Fraser learning that a woman he knew and had been in love years ago had survived and recuperated from a serious case of alcoholism in the same way he had. It struck him that they both had much in common.Robert Gibbs, the author and critic, described In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke as "an entertaining novel with serious and even sombre overtones -- a kind of anti-romance in which the narrator keeps a comic perspective on his own and others' woes..." The poet and critic Fred Cogswell described it as "a beautiful novel, written from the heart."