âDysfunctional Ireland in all its glories is here, with humour of the blackest hue, madness and violence, hopelessly randy priests, dodgy politicians, a grand gallery of misfits culminating in McCabeâs hero in Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick âPussyâ Braden, the transvestite prostitute from the village of Tyreelin . . . Wild, hilarious, merciless and fiendishly cleverâ Ronan Farren, Sunday Independent
âHe is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books . . . dissect lifeâs miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpelâ Erica Wagner, The Times
âIt finds humour in places that other writers are afraid to look for itâ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
âThis is a savagely funny and authentically tragic novel of an Ireland in unhappy transition and beneath McCabeâs perfectly delivered black comedy lies an angry heartâ GQ Magazine
âWithout drawing breath, McCabe mixes camp comedy with brutality, making Breakfast on Pluto both funny and deeply shockingâ Maxim
âTold with irresistible zest, brio and gaiety . . . McCabeâs brilliant, startling talent is to make enchantingly dashing narratives out of the most ghastly states of mind imaginable, and to induce compassion for lives which seem least to invite it . . . He is a dark genius of incongruity and the grotesqueâ Hermione Lee, Observer
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