Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year

Daily Mail

Bursting with imagination and humour ... Very sharp and funny ... Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along regardless

Daily Telegraph

A comedy with teeth from one of America's most consistently inventive novelists ... Boyle's prose is razor sharp and darkly funny. He captures brilliantly all the chaos and compassion of Ty's young and old world

The Times

T.C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation

New York Times

Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize

Sunday Tribune

Boyle's bleak vision of the future is visibly human, and behind the frenzied articulacy lies a compelx, sentimental yearning that gives heart to our absurd extremes

Observer