'A funny, self-mocking, sometimes brilliant portrait of Manhattan's young literary and Wall Street crowd, our latest Lost Generation ... McInerney's version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair'

Time

'Smart, funny and brilliant'

Independent

'McInerney has a gift for the simultaneous perception of the glamour and tawdriness of city life and the novel pulsates with his trademark sense of excitement about living in New York'

Evening Standard

Humane and emotionally gripping

Daily Mail

'It works greatly to McInerney's advantage - and our entertainment - that he is fascinated by what he flagellates ... this book rolls along to an ominous beat ... powerfully affecting'

Independent

McInerney writes with compassion and wit and is never better than when observing the social mores of his contemporaries

Tatler