Canongate U.S.
Canongate U.S.
Canongate U.S.
“Engaging and occasionally even uproarious. . . . The book is a pleasure precisely because it so brazenly sloughs off responsibilities to pacing, plot or emotional resonance. Rarely has such a winning story been built out of such a paean to the joys of slackerdom.” –Publishers Weekly
A wickedly funny debut novel that recalls early Martin Amis, David Gates, and Hunter S. Thompson, and follows a dissolute, reluctant detective who must track down his missing brother who runs the lucrative family business in
Pablo Tusset’s debut novel, The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant, a best seller in
“Tusset’s novel is a mystery in the same way that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a report of a motorcycle race. Croissant is more coherent, but Tusset treats the quest as simply an excuse to let us spend time with his fantastically funny (and insanely quotable) hero. . . . Pablo, the overweight, indignant solipsist, comes from good literary lineage, bearing a strong resemblance to both Joey Tallon in Patrick McCabe’s Call Me the Breeze and Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces. Unforgettable.” –Booklist (starred review)
“Engaging and occasionally even uproarious. . . . The book is a pleasure precisely because it so brazenly sloughs off responsibilities to pacing, plot or emotional resonance. Rarely has such a winning story been built out of such a paean to the joys of slackerdom.” –Publishers Weekly
“This isn’t a book, it’s a month of Friday nights out.” –DBC
“Tusset’s story is like Umberto Eco in a zany mood.
” –Financial Times Magazine
“Funny and original . . . an irreverent hymn of praise to excess consumption of drugs, drink and junk food . . . This first novel by a
“A striking creation, a Falstaffian Barcelona dope fiend and ill-disciplined but insightful philosopher, boozing, puffing, snorting, and whoring his way through his thirties.” –The Times (
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