“Hynes sure does give good mean streets, and this is another rough ride that never flinches.”
—Toronto Star
“Hynes knows the horrors of a hard-liquor, cocaine-spiked hangover at four o’clock in the morning. But he also understands the ecstasies—a woman with her shirt half-open, the wild plunges of conversation and occasionally, just occasionally, the authentic glimpses of wisdom—that happen while you’re getting there.”
—DAVID GILMOUR, author of
A Perfect Night to Go to China
“Hynes shows his literary expansion in this novel about a young man burning with the resentment and angst of an abusive childhood. Both the hated villain and comic victim, Clayton Reid blunders through his days, riddling everything with passion and destruction, leaving love and loathing in his wake. Written in the tough language of its hero, Right Away Monday is a beautiful, suffering story by a gutsy new novelist.”
—DONNA MORRISSEY, author of Kit’s Law
“A rip-roaring and chaotic down-and-out-in-St.-John’s novel about an alcoholic drug-addicted bartender and the women who love him in spite of himself. It’s a raw comedy about how lost the lost can get before detox and redemption. Its hero is the Energizer Bunny of self-destruction and the anti-Christ of political correctness. It’s the grunge rock of Can Lit.”
—DOUGLAS GLOVER, author of Elle