“Carries all the intimations of angst, melancholia and comedy that make Jacobson unique.”──《每日電訊報》
“When he's at full throttle like this, few British novelists can touch him for such stirring, belligerent comedy ... Jacobson's attack on our growing philistinism proving uncomfortably persuasive.”──《每日郵報》
“Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling.”──《週日獨立報》
“In Guy Ableman, Jacobson has created an unforgettable narrator, a character defined by heroic flaws and tender, susceptible heart ... Few modern novelists better balance the absurd with the artistic, the priapic with the philosophical, the wicked with the wise ... a scorching indictment of an anti-intellectual age in which most readers are greedy for pap, and those who want more than a sugared bun passed to them through the bars are doomed to starve.”──Sunday Herald
"Outlandish, fueled by rage, very much like a brilliant comic stand-up routine… a comic novel of ideas." ──《紐約時報書評》