Pervoklassnyy liricheskiy i dramaticheskiy roman, sozdannyy v luchshih traditsiyah russkoy realistichnoy prozy. Istoriya glavnogo geroya pechalna, no v to zhe vremya pozitivna i propitana nastoyaschim dushevnym teplom. Kak by ty ni byl schastliv, postoyanno stoit pomnit o tom, chto ves tvoy mir, v suschnosti, visit na voloske nad propastyu. Eschyo vchera u Igorya Bykova bylo pochti vsyo, o chyom mozhno mechtat: obozhaemaya semya, lyubimaya rabota, privychnaya i nalazhennaya zhizn. No vsyo eto ruhnulo v edinyy mig, kogda dochka Nastyona popala pod mashinu... Mnogie gody roman «Mir nad propastyu» uverenno sohranyaet svoi pozitsii v tope luchshih proizvedeniy sovremennyh otechestvennyh avtorov. CHitateli otmechayut, chto kniga Olega Roya stala dlya nih podderzhkoy i sovetchikom v samyh nelyogkih zhiznennyh situatsiyah, pomogla nayti v sebe sily spravitsya so vsemi trudnostyami i vnov obresti nadezhdu i zhelanie zhit.