Critical Praise

Post Book World

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"A surreal romp.... An unsettling claustrophobic novel in which McCabe imaginatively distills Northern Ireland's public horrors as he compels us to inhabit Patrick Braden's private nightmare. "

——Boston

Globe "An unsparing account of Irish realities. [A] moving, brilliantly told tale...full of human comedy and cruelty. "

——Washington

Wall Street Journal "Breakfast on Pluto may be the most successful book yet to be born out of the violence [in Northern Ireland]...stunning originality. "

——New

York Times Book Review "By turns hilarious and pitiably lonely, Patrick ["Pussy" Braden] is an unforgettable hero. "

——Newsweek

" Mr. McCabe is a lodestone of new Irish fiction, a writer capable of history and traditions of his country and its literature with the mad whirl of politics and pop culture. "

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