But Victor Heringer’s writing manages to pull off the miraculous feat of simultaneously playing constant truant to itself and being entirely present and focussed, first line to last. They don’t allow themselves the excursions and incoherences that life is full of. Most novels are, at base, very responsible pieces of work. ‘The Love of Singular Men is an electrifying, passionate piece of writing - unlike anything I’ve read. He left this beautiful book behind.' - Zadie Smith Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. It's ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. 'When you read something genuinely new it's hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel.
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