Author:William Boyd
'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph
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Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.
He should be concentrating on his job as an art assessor, but his complicated personal life keeps intruding. And that's before we even get to his sense of alienation, of being a fish out of water. For Henderson is a shy man lost in a country of extraverts and weirdos. Subway poets, loony millionaires, Bible-bashers and sharp-suited hoods stalk him wherever he goes. But it is only when he's sent to America's deep South to examine a rare collection of paintings that matters take a life-threatening turn. Still, if it doesn't kill you, they say it can only make you stronger . . .
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'Boyd's humour, timed to a tee, always raps out the truth' Mail on Sunday
'Extremely funny. Boyd does not pass up a single comic turn' Sunday Telegraph
'Splittlingly shrewd and engaging' Guardian
'The wry laughter never stops . . . the shrewdest pages yet from a master of witty manipulation' Observer
A novel that has soul, which Saramago offers to his readers with all his witty, intelligent, tender and magical generosity
—— Samantha Harvey , IndependentOffers an unearthly, muted beauty; a freedom from the obvious, the ideological and trivial; an atmosphere of profound serenity, and a benevolent humor
—— Literary ReviewBoth delightful and unsettling which is perhaps the mark of true literature
—— Anthony Daniels , Sunday TelegraphA tantalizing novel...shifting and teasing, full of metaphorical labyrinths and false trails
—— HeraldIt is the marriage of the living and the dying...that so strongly characterizes the writing of Jose Saramago
—— New StatesmanThe Swedish Academy's citation called his novels "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony." It is a description which perfectly captures his latest novel
—— The TimesUtterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels
—— TatlerPhilip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read.
—— Angea Nagle , Irish Times[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos
—— Sarfraz Manzoor , Week
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