Author:Philip Ó Ceallaigh
Philip Ó Ceallaigh's first collection of stories, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse, established him as one of the most vital and distinctive new voices in fiction. The Pleasant Light of Day confirms his enormous talent and presses brilliantly into new territory. Whether he is imagining a father and son walking the streets of Cairo or concocting a hilarious parody of a certain wildly popular inspirational writer from Brazil, Philip Ó Ceallaigh is a writer who demands to be read.
Dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature
—— UncutThe most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time
—— Daily MailThe wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx
—— The TimesImbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility
—— Lionel Shriver , Financial Times(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar
—— IndependentThe best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output
—— Daily TelegraphYou should buy this book
—— SpectatorDark, funny and disturbing
—— London Review of Books