The New York Times Book Review - Terrence Rafferty
…McCabe…is expert at making the darkest deeds funny, forcing us to laugh at the worst things in the world. He writes like an Irish Lenny Bruce, riffing at warp speed, swerving from one time to another and one place to another and strewing the landscape with allusions…and somehow it all makes sense…Different though they are, the novels come together when you're finished reading, creating a single vision of the horrors that crush people's souls. The stories McCabe tells have a terrible beauty. Next to them, the problems of a bunch of vampires don't amount to a hill of beans.
From the Publisher
"[McCabe] is expert at making the darkest deeds funny, forcing us to laugh at the worst things in the world. He writes like an Irish Lenny Bruce, riffing at warp speed, swerving from one time to another and one place to another and strewing the landscape with allusion . . . and somehow it all makes sense . . . The stories McCabe tells have a terrible beauty. "—The New York Times
"A rewarding experience which sees the master of the Irish gothic genre return to his best form in years."—JP O'Malley, The Observer
"Both bits of Hello and Goodbye are exuberant and witty and Goodbye Mr Rat deserves to rekindle his former glories."—Paul Dunn, The Times
"McCabe is especially good at conjuring up the menace of psychopaths who perpetrate acts of barbarism under the spurious guise of ideologies."—John Boland, The Independent
