Mr. Peanut
- Published: 1 June 2010
- ISBN: 9781407052083
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Mr. Peanut is as ingenious as it is riveting
Richard Russo
Mr. Peanut crackles with life. Ross's long set pieces... reveal his talent for conjuring characters and imagining scenes that, like good short stories, could stand nobly by themselves
Harper’s Magazine
Mr. Peanut, the daring, arresting first novel by Adam Ross, an author of prodigious talent... the novel is an enormous success - forceful and involving, often deeply stirring and always impressively original... This is a brilliant, powerful, memorable book
Scott Turow, New York Times Book Review
The emotional language and perceptions of Mr. Peanut are extraordinary, and all the more so for their position within such a formally stylised novel ... it does entertain, inform and thoroughly delight
Rosalind Porter, Literary Review
This compulsive thriller works as a sharp satire on loneliness and partnership, and is a beautifully crafted, gripping read
Financial Times
An impressive first novel
Guardian
The most riveting look at the dark side of marriage since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?... fascinating. It induced nightmares, at least in this reader. No mean feat
Stephen King
A perverse romance... deliciously clever, full of dark insight and even a touch of hope
The Economist
Ross is a sorcerer with words
New York Times
A riveting first novel... its greatest delight is the sheer brilliance of the writing, polished like marble so it moves without friction but wholly vivid and alive
Word
An ambitious and well-crafted noir that manages to humanise its characters while fashioning their stories into a gripping page-turner
Observer
Arresting first novel by Adam Ross, an author of prodigious talent'...This is a brilliant, powerful, memorable novel
Scotsman
A sharp and satirical thriller...this well-crafted debut novel is gripping from the start
Big Issue North
Ross' debut novel combines thriller and satire as he explores loneliness and marital difficulties in contemporary America
Paul Dunn, The Times
Adam Ross has crafted a diabolically intricate novel, one that presents all the pleasures and challenges of a well-wrought Sudoku puzzle. There's a whiff of alchemy to the book; you can't quite believe that its many pieces fit together so snugly. Yet they do. Once you've finished, you run your eye back and forth and up and down, and every way you look it adds up. Mr. Peanut is smart, funny, gripping and - in its ultimate unravelling - sneakily sad
Scott Smith