- Published: 15 March 2011
- ISBN: 9780099535621
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $29.99
Get Me Out of Here
- Published: 15 March 2011
- ISBN: 9780099535621
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $29.99
Henry Sutton has always had a knack for squeezing the national zeitgeist into tight little narratives
Geoff Dyer
Henry Sutton - who writes like a dream - has pulled off what Tom Wolfe did for the greed-is-good 80s in Bonfire of the Vanities. He has written - with black, comic brilliance - about out times
Tony Parsons, Daily Mirror
Totally brilliant and I haven't ever read anything quite like it
The Sun
With Matt Freeman, Sutton has really captured the Zeitgeist ... Is he a killer or just a frustrated loser? Following the clues is fascinating in itself. When I finished this book, I wanted to read it again, and did
Financial Times
This is a crime novel that jangles with the best sort of Highsmithian bug-eyed paranoia, but it's also a savage satire on our over-inflated expectations and sense of entitlement. A dark comedy in the style of early Martin Amis, Get Me Out of Here will have you laughing and flinching at the same time
Laura Wilson, Guardian
Sutton's acute rendering of a bloated city in financial and moral freefall, and the ease with which the hatred and violence can overrun its streets, make this a very modern and thoroughly haunting piece of work
Sunday Telegraph
A 21st century London update of American Psycho
WBQ
[Sutton's hero's] a paranoid mess. A lying loser. A stony broke snob. And Sutton nails him perfectly in pacy thriller form
Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
Very slick and very British; a tricky combo to pull off
GQ online
A slice of bleakly comic urban paranoia
Big Issue
Sutton's black comedy is not only a timely reminder of how we were all suckered by the credit boom, but also a gripping read
John Harding, Daily Mail
If you like your stories spoon-fed, this might not be the novel for you. If you can abandon the cutlery, hand sanitiser and table manners - tuck in
The Wharf
A cross between Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Martin Amis's Money
Daily Telegraph
Its ace, addictive and enthralling
Danny Wallace, Daily Mail
Blisteringly angry..,begins as a black comedy but gradually turns much darker with the mad-as-hell narrator suspected of murdering his lovers in London
Sunday Telegraph
Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed. A horrible character but a compelling narrator
William Leith, Evening Standard
This darkly comic novel with it's brilliantly acute observations of life in London in the 21st Century completely captures the zeitgeist and raises more than a few laughs.
Carla McKay, Daily Mail
Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed
William Leith, The Scotsman
Gripping and darkly comic tale of 21st-century material greed
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