Endorsements | Reviews
Absolutely amazing... it’s the most energetic and surreal
and extraordinary novel I have read for a very long time... it’s really remarkable.It's unlike anything I've read in a long time. And that's a good thing. I loved it.
In Tomas, Rabelais meets Tom Wolfe.
Palumbo’s surrealist satire of the Age of Eurotrash is a grotesque as it is gripping.The noises I made whilst reading this book frightened people on the train.
Either mad or genius or both!
Bizarre, intriguing, funny and superbly written... more please!
American Psycho comes to Europe.
A wild, weird, brilliantly inventive fable of our times - I loved it,
should be on the long list for the Man-Booker prize.Comedy so black you need night vision goggles. A tour de farce.
A book of furious, surreal satire of a colourful kind. It’s wonderful to read this kind of book;
I think it’s a marvelous surprise from an unlikely source.At times the book has hints of Douglas Adams, at other Hunter Thompson.
It’s original, strange, surreal...a book that provokes a reaction in the reader, a book that makes you think.What you do, or do not take from this book will depend heavily on your own beliefs and thoughts.
This is Palumbo's debut novel and there are glimpses of a special talent that will hopefully bloom in later works.Tomas couldn’t be more timely...
A monstrous 21st century take on F Scott Fitzgerald’s comment that 'the rich are different'A debut novel that explodes at full blast.
Palumbo delivers a savage satire of the highest calibre.With celebrity endorsements from Stephen Fry and Noel Fielding, the gritty satire
by the Ministry of Sound founder has had more advance publicity than almost any debut novel, ever.
But is it any good? Niall Ferguson thinks so. ‘Rabelais meets Tom Wolfe,’ he calls itTomas has cult written all over it. There are hints of American Psycho
and the collected works of Hunter S Thompson, with the surreality and metaphor cranked up.Picking up the literary baton of monomaniacal money lust, Tomas drips with disdain for the
cancer of economic excess. Palumbo’s first foray in to the world of words is a surreal, searingly
critical search for a new messiah in a near-distant future.Tomas is a snorting, wide ranging, surreal satire which lampoons the vulgarity of a craven
celebrity culture fed by reality TV and businessmen genuflecting before Russian oligarchs.
Tomas - a satire that mixes fantastical imagery and the dislocation you find in JG Ballard.Palumbo’s a skilled, often funny writer,
and his skewering of mindless excess is sometimes spot on.Palumbo’s imagination is certainly very twisted and hilarious throughout the book and makes for
interesting, entertaining reading. The writing and ideas are certainly original and go a long way to setting
Palumbo up as an inventive new writer.