Mr Breakfast
Book description
From one of the great modern masters of the fantastic, “A beautiful, brilliant, meditation on art, love, inspiration and what makes life worthwhile."-- Neil Gaiman
"[Carroll's] prose is spare, polished and quick-moving, sometimes lightly comic, always immensely engaging... Mr. Breakfast is pure pleasure to read. It will surprise you, make…
Why read it?
1 author picked Mr Breakfast as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jonathan Carroll is my favorite author. He’s also my wife’s favorite. We lovingly bicker over who gets to read his books first whenever a new one is released, oftentimes ending up with two bookmarks as we alternate reading it at the same time.
Sixteen novels in, Carroll has perfected his take on magic realism, where anything can happen and it’s no big deal while always grounding the story in observational truisms such as “You can love someone and still think they’re an idiot.”
I hope he has another book in him, and I hope it doesn’t take another 9 years.
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