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Amazing Disgrace
James Hamilton-Paterson
Europa Editions
ISBN: 1-933372-19-2
Pub. date: December 05 2006
320 pages
Size: 5.25 x 8.25
Price: $14.95


 
January 18 2007 - The Spectator: "elegant, cultivated sensibility is at work here. Hamilton-Paterson, one of our finest prose stylists, is a national treasure; and Amazing Disgrace [...] is a gorgeous plum pudding of a novel."

December 04 2006 - The Seattle Times: "The vainglorious Gerald is a wonderfully cranky narrator and the book's satirical-outrage factor sometimes reaches Borat-like heights."

November 24 2006 - The Washington Post: "The amazingly prolific and astonishingly sophisticated James Hamilton-Paterson has given us another novel, as offbeat and unexpected as any of the rest."

November 14 2006 - The New York Magazine: "It’s loads of fun, light and dazzling as a peacock feather. BUY IT."

November 12 2006 - The Complete Review: "All of Amazing Disgrace is funny, and some of it is very funny indeed. Hamilton-Paterson has the voice and attitude down perfectly, making for a great comic figure in Gerald (and one who associates with quite the cast of characters)"

September 20 2006 - Booklist (starred review): "Amazing Disgrace is written as if Samper is chatting with the reader over a bottle of prosecco, and it offers endless (often laugh-out-loud) musings from the scatological to the sartorial."

August 24 2006 - Kirkus Reviews: "A British satirical novel skewers celebrity autobiographies, environmental activism and the idyllic life in Tuscany... Gerald Samper returns with his flamboyant wit and self-absorption undiminished."

August 24 2006 - Publishers Weekly: "This stylishly funny follow-up to Cooking with Fernet-Branca continues the story of Gerald Samper, the English ghostwriter of exuberant sports and media autobiographies."