Reviews
"A witty, tragi-comic debut"
The New York Times
"A stand-up comedian's eye for banal details...a slim, refreshingly unpretentious memoir."
Houman Barekat - The Spectator
"The lives of middle-aged men are to John Patrick Higgins as the statue of Ozymandias was to Shelley: epic, broken and tragi-comic."
Reggie Chamberlain-King - Popmatters
"A light, humorous touch. He made me laugh and cringe with recognition."
Sue Leonard - Irish Examiner
"Higgins is a deft writer whose prose often displays a spare lyricism...I doubt there's a page that went by I didn't laugh once."
Vincent Czyz - The Arts Fuse
"While Higgins may have us struggling to contain one laugh before bursting into the next, he is not merely funny. He subjects us and our culture - high and low - to an endlessly inventive remix, a tombola of giddy and gleeful reference that never neglects the human and never fails to move."
Guillermo Stitch, author of Lake of Urine