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The Pleasant Light of Day
The Pleasant Light of Day
Oct 30, 2024 9:23 AM

Author:Philip Ó Ceallaigh

The Pleasant Light of Day

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.

Reviews

Dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature

—— Uncut

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

—— Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

—— The Times

Imbued 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

—— Independent

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as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 Telegraph

You should buy this book

—— Spectator

Dark, funny and disturbing

—— London Review of Books
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