Raving Reviewer of the Day: Justin Cartwright
19/07/2012
Justin Cartwright in The Spectator thinks Nicola Barker reaches a new high with THE YIPS:
There are more characters — many more, including a Muslim sex therapist — in this unrelenting torrent of dialogue and farce, which rolls on for over 500 pages. But there is a very serious talent and a very serious intent behind this apparent gallimaufry. Barker captures — and lovingly distorts — both the rhythms and the banality of language. She is, as it were, Harold Pinter on crack.
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