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The wisest, most humane and transcendent novel on the contemporary family since The Corrections

Irvine Welsh

Darkly funny, lyrical and shrewdly observant

Tom Perrotta

A big, generous-hearted American family novel . . . Meno's characters bristle with humanity, and I think this book will find a huge audience for its wisdom and life-affirming, but unsentimental, qualities

Irvine Welsh

The Daily Telegraph

The A to Z of Joe Meno

Posted by Joe Meno on Tuesday 13th April 2010

A is for Apple, Apple Records. I hadn't been a fan of the Beatles growing up and then sometime, in my mid-twenties I heard "Eleanor Rigby" for the millionth time and it occurred to me how brilliant, how much like poetry it was, and still, somehow a pop song. In writing , I went back to the Beatles' music quite a bit, especially Revolver and the White Album. I wanted the book to have the same willingness to throws its arms around everything, the way that particular record seems to cover all of twentieth century music, with a multitude of styles, tones, and voices.

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