Hark

Reviews

‘Laugh-out-loud funny... dazzling ... an ebullient, irreverent and deeply serious novel in the noble tradition of Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis and John Kennedy Toole’ Stuart Kelly

‘Madcap and full of love, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world's greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme), if Hark doesn't make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage, then you are not human’ Gary Shteyngart, author of

‘Wickedly funny’ Alastair Mabbot

‘Wild, dark and very funny... Lipsyte delivers a real winner’

‘Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a 'must read'’ Paul Beatty, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning

‘Frequently hilarious’

‘Just at the point when I'd nearly given up on literary novels, I've found Sam Lipsyte, who, sentence for sentence, is as good as any of the greats ’ David Baddiel

‘Rich, deep and very funny’ Carl Wilkinson

‘The book has a scattergun brilliance, endlessly throwing up finely cut phrases and manic riffs’ Phil Baker

‘The world needed more Sam Lipsyte and Lipsyte, knowing this, perhaps, has given us Hark. It's a stellar work by a great satirist, an uncanny observer, a keen stylist, a truly fine and thrilling writer’ Patrick deWitt, author

‘Worth every second of the wait...a swoon-inducing hybrid of stuttering poetry and malicious stand-up comedy routine. Hark is a work of brilliance’