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“Paul Lynch has a sensational gift for a sentence, inherited from the likes of Cormac McCarthy, Sebastian Barry, and Daniel Woodrell. He is a writer to watch out for, staking a bid for a territory all his own.”
— Colum McCann, New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin
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“Sumptuous and poetic…Lynch’s sense of the period, and the huge disruptions in society which affected every single character, is clever and well informed, but he has taken a real and fascinating risk with the style.”
— Colm Toíbín, New York Times bestselling author
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“Lynch’s language, which is musical, close, and alive, evokes something that seems quintessentially Irish…His combination of nightmarish poetry and heart-racing plot is what makes Red Sky in Morning so compelling, like a gorgeous, terrifying ghost story. You’ll want to close your eyes and cover your ears, but find you can’t turn away.”
— Daily Beast
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“A cracking debut novel. Paul Lynch’s startling, evocative prose veers closer to poetry…This novel is a wonderful achievement.”
— Sunday Times (London)
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“A compulsive read…A combination of the poetic and the vicious. It unabashedly uses a twenty-first-century sensibility to subvert the conventions of the ‘historical’ novel.”
— Irish Times
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“Muscular and opulent…the novel is ripe with spookily vivid writing. A very stylishly written book that takes the Irish novel into quite a different genre.”
— Irish Examiner
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“Paul Lynch’s writing is full of dark invention and brutal beauty. A raw and audacious talent which grips Irish writing by the neck.”
— Hugo Hamilton, author of The Speckled People
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“This book makes the literary synapses spark and burn—forged in his own new and wonderful language, Paul Lynch reaches to the root, branch, and bole of things, and unfurls a signal masterpiece.”
— Sebastian Barry, author of The Secret Scripture