'Boyle is a master of structure, his stories beautifully engineered machines which he spray-paints with graffiti' Independent 'Boyle is one of the most intelligent and well-respected writers of his generation, continually flexing a literary muscle most writers don't even know they have' The Times 'No-one better than TC Boyle can hoover a sentence out of the gods' imaginations, and set it in glitter on the page ' Scotsman 'Boyle is a gifted and empathic satirist, the finest craftsman masked as a pop-literary author current American fiction has. He's a writer unafraid of the grand gesture' Bret Easton Ellis