'An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure'

Daily Mail

'A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper'

Frank McCourt

'McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour'

Peter Carey, Observer Books of the Year

'A wow of a novel - rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide'

The Times