Lerner's self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own - Paul Auster dazzlingly good novel - Lorin Stein * New York Review of Books *Ī dazzling first novel that does not flinch from difficulty but asks questions of language and art and what we can do with them - Amy Sackville, Books of the Year * Big Issue * One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of his generation. The Spanish travails (or lack of them) of Lerner's preening poet narrator are painful, well-observed and often very funny - Hari Kunzru One of the most talked-about fiction debuts this year, it's a book for anyone who's ever been young and self-conscious in a foreign city. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every page - James Wood * New Yorker * a beguiling mixture of lightness and weight. subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel. Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence, and abuzz with the feel of our late-late-modern moment - Jonathan Franzen * Guardian, Books of the Year 2011 * They're comic but they're also beautiful and touching and precise - Jenny Turner * Guardian *
The overall narrative is structured around subtle, delicate moments. Superb - Anthony Cummins * Metro *Īn anatomy of a generation's uncertainty and self-involvement, the novel offers a carefully constructed snapshot of a nation in doubt. We finish this book feeling a little cleverer, and a little happier - Isabel Berwick * Financial Times * Lerner's genius is to put into words that universal, often-lost period when most young people are commitment-free but weighed down with a sense of the nascent self. Seductively intelligent and stylish writing, mercilessly comic in the ways it strips the creative ego bare - Peter Carty * Independent *įunny, uplifting and moving. The best new novel I've read for a long time - James Meek stood out from everything else I read this year - Catherine O'Flynn, Books of the Year * Observer * intensely and unusually brilliant - Geoff Dyer * Observer * It's packed full of gags and page-long one-liners. Gales of laughter howl through remarkable first novel.
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