My Coney Island Baby - Hardcover

"Billy O'Callaghan's writing is a profound, uncommon blend of grit and beauty, with sentences that, like his characters, are simultaneously sparse and infinitely rich."--Simon Van Booy

"I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O'Callaghan."--Robert Olen Butler

"Vividly rendered... O'Callaghan excels at painting a portrait of physical and emotional isolation."--Publishers Weekly

"O'Callaghan [has made a] significant achievement in this fine novel... Good books remind us of other good books and in its treatment of adultery this one calls to mind thematic ancestors such as Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina and The Scarlet Letter." --Sunday Times

"Quiet, subtle and deeply moving ... This is a fine novel, with elegance and wisdom lying beneath an unpretensious surface and O'Callaghan, a gifted writer, has managed to do that most difficult of things: take a quiet, almost everyday story and transform it into a thing of beauty."--John Boyne, Irish Times

"A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed."--Charles Kilroy, The Guardian

"With poeticism and aching sensitivity, O'Callaghan unknots the minute workings of these starved adulterous souls ... images rendered here stick with you, such is the intensity that they shimmer with."--Irish Independent

"...a welcome voice to the pantheon of new Irish writing"--Edna O'Brien

"An illicit meeting between long-term lovers makes for a poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time...In the closing pages, O'Callaghan's prose reaches a pitch of emotional intensity that ensures these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed."--Happy Ever After blog, USA Today

“An illicit meeting between long-term lovers makes for a poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time...In the closing pages, O'Callaghan's prose reaches a pitch of emotional intensity that ensures these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed.”--The Guardian