INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM FOR

My Present Age

“My Present Age is black comedy at its intimate and subversive best.”

– Douglas Barbour, Canadian Literature

“Very nearly unique among present-day novels of any sort: like Philip Roth and almost no one else, Vanderhaeghe has the ability to make you root for the protagonist without setting up straw men or women for the protagonist.…”

– Greil Marcus, Express, Berkeley (U.S.)

“A fast, fluent and very funny novel.… This is a hilarious, bleakly realistic comedy about modern life’s conformists and casualties. Or more precisely, about what can happen when it’s finally time to grow up – and you can’t.”

– Image Magazine (U.K.)

“[A] wonderful first novel.… Brilliantly funny and very sad.”

– San Jose Mercury News

“Compassionate, humorous, and thematically important.”

– Bloomsbury Review (U.S.)

“A deftly done novel.… [My Present Age is] astonishing in conception and execution.…”

– San Diego Magazine

“An irresistible first novel.… An achievement.…”

– Spectator (U.K.)

“A beautifully sustained performance.”

– USA Today