MR Mee

Enriching, enlightening, and highly entertaining. 'The Boston Globe' An intellectual romp . . . Crumey has spun a delightful brain-tickler of a novel that undermines its own pretensions, a subversion that is in fact at the heart of the book's very real debate over the power of literature to redeem or corrupt or do anything at all'. Maureen Shelly in Time Out 'Crumey tells [his] tale with elegance and humor, and in rich detail. His immense talent reveals itself most potently in his ability to find remarkable connections in otherwise disparate intellectual concepts conceived over the course of several centuries, and then to turn those connections into a coherent and lively story . . . The many surprises and twists [in this book] provide a rare and spectacular reading experience . . . Mr. Mee is a challenging book, but it's one to savour'. Andrew C. Ervin in The Washington Post Book World 'Like a trompe l'oeil painting, or a puzzle that invites us to draw at least two contradictory, yet equally plausible conclusions, Mr. Mee disturbs as it diverts, charms as it challenges'. The Washington Times 'In short-it's fabulous. This is a novel which deserves to break its author through, if ever I read one. . . Mr Mee had me helpless with laughter'. Jonathan Coe 'Mr Mee is not only an intellectual treat but a moving meditation on aspiration and desire'.