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'Written with all the imaginative gusto of a heavy-weight novelist' FT MAGAZINE 'Exuberant' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Wildly entertaining' DAILY MAIL 'An exuberant, joyful ride. Outrageously funny, it combines high farce with biting satire' INDEPENDENT 'Written with all the imaginative gusto of a heavy-weight novelist, it's easy to admire this ambitious book' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A complete original' WASHINGTON POST 'With his easy charm that is enthralling and endearing, he is an Everyman whose ballad is worth hearing.' OBSERVER 'Cotton is a marvellous creation... a rumbustious romp of a novel, full of comic set pieces and imaginative, playful writing which explores notions of identity and belonging.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'That this novel never irritates or lectures, or gets too serious, is due entirely to the charm of Lee Cotton, whose easy Southern manners and affability make the book worthwhile. For this, Christopher Wilson should be commended.' SPECTATOR 'It's brimful of ideas, littered with surprises, sad, dramatic, funny by turns, and richly peopled with charcters, from leading players to cameo roles, who are almost, but not quite, too weird for words. This is Wilson's particular skill. As he moves Lee from one part of America to another from race to race and gender to gender he sustains the illusion that- for all its bizarreness- this is an essentially realistic portrayal of modern man (woman, whatever) Lee Cotton is Everyman by way of the Elephan Man, like none of us, yet like any one of us.' LITERARY REVIEW 'There are neat touches of Kurt Vonnegut-esque humour... a wildly entertaining read.' DAILY MAIL 'The true delight here is Wilson's literary ventriloquism. Lee's lilting voice is addictive and often hilarious. As a moral philosopher, though, his insights rival the profundity of that other great Dixie Sage, Forrest Gump.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Wilson is a clever satirist, and his portrait of America in one of its most troubled decades is full of deft touches and surprising twists.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'This is blisteringly funny social satire, a real tour-de-force.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
FT Magazine, 30 April 2005
'Written with all the imaginative gusto of a heavy-weight novelist'
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