Book cover for North Face of Soho

North Face of Soho

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07 November 2008
272 pages
9780330481274
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

It’s not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance
I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put together. This is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earn
His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer