A joyous, mad, brilliant, laugh-out-loud box of tricks from one of America's most daring writers. Delicious, delicious, delicious. I could read Saunders forever

Liz Jensen

Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny with a prose style this fine. Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed

Zadie Smith

Again and again, Saunders demonstrates that wacky, subversive, formally strange writing is not only not contrary to our nation's capitalist spirit, it's the most natural and effective of responses to it. He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him

Jonathan Franzen

Saunders reads like Barthelme or Coover, and can be funnier than either

Hari Kunzru, Books of the Year, Guardian

Surreal and puncturing

Margaret Atwood

Saunders, as an American social and literary critic, may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium

The Times