- Published: 15 February 2016
- ISBN: 9780099539841
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
Lurid & Cute
- Published: 15 February 2016
- ISBN: 9780099539841
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good.
Joshua Ferris, author of 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour'
It’s a seductive slice of suburban noir
Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
Lurid & Cute is strong enough to make admirers out of detractors
Malcolm Forbes, National
Lurid & Cute, which begins as…an exercise in pure style, also reveals itself as a very earnest critique of the morals of a pampered generation
Adam Kirsch, Atlantic
Reads like a collaboration between Kundera and Murakami to adapt SJ Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep or Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl into post-modernist fiction
Guardian
The narrator of Thirlwell’s latest book may be his best creation yet… The way time works here – pulled and stretched, sped up and sped down – testifies to Thirlwell’s mastery as a storyteller… Impossible to put down
New York Times Book Review
Reading Thirlwell is like going into the happiest, cholesterol-clogged form of literary existence. Whether he’s writing about the decline and fall of our civilization or a guy who thinks he’s accidentally killed his lover, the prose bounces us into a state of fulfilled happiness and wonder
Gary Shteyngart, Salon
A dazzlingly imaginative comic noir
Financial Times
An extravagantly talented novelist
Evening Standard
A phantasmagoric tale of a modern world full of sex and violence, which is both funny and shocking.
A. S. Byatt, Spectator
Thirlwell’s narrative is packed with bold similes and outlandish events.
Daily Telegraph
The dialogue is laugh-out-loud funny.
Tamim Sadikali, Bookmunch
Beautifully told in an engaging way by a stylist at the very top of his game.
William Leith, Evening Standard
Lurid and Cute is a breathless stream of conscientiousness of an unnamed hero whose aimless life is ultimately set to self-destruction. There is an element of Tarantino in the sex, violence and freneticism of the book.
Amelia Ashton, Nudge