Talk Talk

Quotes

“A tense thriller . . . Talk Talk opens at full throttle and never slackens.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Talk Talk stands out as nothing short of an uncomfortable masterpiece—as simultaneously overwhelming, treacherous, beautiful, and boiling over with hellacious revelation as its ultimate subject: life in twentieth-century America.”—Los Angeles Times

“Funny, engaging, and suspenseful.”—The New York Times

“His most exciting novel yet . . . Boyle knows how to drill down through the surface of everyday life into our core anxieties, and he knows how to write constantly charging, heart-thumping chase scenes.”—The Washington Post

“Boyle takes the reader on a wild ride. . . . No one writes better about the wages of American sin.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Starts off fast and never lets go . . . Boyle once again delivers an entertaining story with his usual laser commentary—about the way we identify ourselves and the role language plays.”—USA Today
 
“Outrageously talented . . . When Boyle finds the delicate balance between his over-the-top satirical impulses and his startling sentimentality, no American novelist can touch him. . . [Talk Talk] flies along on the power of Boyle’s propulsive and exquisitely perceptive prose.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“A chilling literary thriller.”—New York Daily News

“A dandy novel, complete with the timely subject of identity theft. . . . Talk Talk rarely falters, the sentences sharp and the characters well defined.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Talk Talk makes the lurking danger of identify theft a dizzying reality. . . . A tricky novel of unlikely intimacies.”—O, The Oprah Magazine