- Published: 2 July 2007
- ISBN: 9780099492849
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $26.99
Seeds Of Greatness











- Published: 2 July 2007
- ISBN: 9780099492849
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $26.99
Canter explores with gentle acuity the oppositions in long term friendship, and delves humorously into the relationship between writer and subject
Observer
Jon Canter is a north London Woody Allen. I haven't laughed so much in years - and then I realised that I had felt and thought hard too
Carole Angier, Independent
The most impressive thing in this novel is the way it captures the nuances of the love hate relationship between two friends who have enjoyed contrasting fortunes...There will not be many more polished debuts in 2006. Canter has taken an old tale and retold it with admirable invention and freshness
David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
A wise cracking monologue... laugh-a-line funny but in the tradition of jewish humour, [it] touches a serious issue
John Sutherland, Financial Times
Well observed, warm humour... perfect parody
Andrew Collins, The Times
A very funny, intelligent novel about being a failure
Guardian
Funny, beautiful and strangely moving - stuffed full of belly laughs, but written from the heart
Tony Parsons
He is arguably the finest comic novelist working in Britain today. Indeed, he may just be finest comic anything working in Britain right now... Canter's prose is achingly funny...it is also vital, acute, literary and oddly moving.
James Kidd, Independent