Sharp, sad, sophisticated, funny and sometimes exceedingly strange
- Kate Saunders, The Times
<i>Lucky Alan</i> is worth reading for those stories that convey so adroitly people’s beleaguered attempts to communicate with one another.
- Hannah Beckerman, Guardian
Intriguing.
- Aamer Hussein, Independent
The confidence of Lethem’s narration and the clarity of his language save any of this from whimsy: that’s a tough trick to pull off, but Lethem does it over and over again. No wonder he won a MacArthur fellowship (the famous “genius grant”) a decade ago.
- Erica Wagner, Financial Times
A powerful glimpse into where Lethem is as a writer right now.
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