Jonathan Carroll is the author of seventeen novels, including the critically acclaimed The Ghost in Love, The Land of Laughs, and Outside the Dog Museum, for which he has won a British Fantasy award. Jonathan has also written two story collections, with his stories winning a Pushcart Prize, two French Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a World Fantasy Award. His work has been published in over thirty languages, and he has over 110,000 followers on Facebook.
"[Carroll's] prose is spare, polished and quick-moving, sometimes
lightly comic, always immensely engaging... Mr. Breakfast is pure
pleasure to read... It will surprise you, make you laugh and scare
you — and then, just when you think it’s over, add several extra
twists." -- The Washington Post
"Carroll’s prose... imprints deep into your psyche, amplifying the
beauty and absurdity of everyday life while highlighting the
metaphysical in the seemingly mundane." -- The Los Angeles Review
of Books
"Entertaining and thought-provoking." -- The Boston Globe
"Few recent works of fiction in any genre have touched on the
vagaries of life, love, and art more movingly or with deeper
understanding. An intoxicating, deeply affecting novel by the
influential fantasist." — Kirkus, STARRED review
"A compulsively readable, introspective tale about the road not
taken... At its heart, this is an arresting and imaginative
meditation on life. Perfect for fans of magical realism with a
free-flowing style like that of David Mitchell and Toshikazu
Kawaguchi." — Library Journal
"A beautiful and thoughtful book." --Wisconsin Public Radio
"Another winner from one of our best fabulists... the novel
thrilled me; it made me reflect on art, love, choices, and regrets;
it left me with tears in the corners of my eyes and a smile on my
face. What more can a reader ask for?" -- TOR.com
"Both wistfully melancholy and downright joyous." -- Locus
Magazine
"As always with the exceptionally imaginative Carroll, he creates
complex worlds for his hero to inhabit and with clever crossovers
between realms that are carefully thought out and fun to explore.
Carroll's attention to details is impressive, and the unexpected
prevails." — Booklist
"[Carroll] gives readers so much to consider about love, art,
disappointment, loss, the wondrous possibilities of life, and the
vast unknowables of the universe... This really interesting and
weird novel challenges and delights." -- Bookreporter
"Carroll works comfortably and confidently within his fantasy and
simply tells a good story." -- Complete Review
“This is both a characteristic book—a part of the Carroll
mosaic—and a unique one. I love the refractions as early
scenes are reconsidered in light of later ones. I slowed down in
the last third, to savor the gorgeous intricacies. I love the
humor—the sly humor, and the dumb jokes and the
surreally-simple/simply-surreal word combinations that are always
Jonathan Carroll's signature.” — Jonathan Lethem, author of the New
York Times-bestselling Motherless Brooklyn
“A beautiful, brilliant meditation on art, love, inspiration and
what makes life worthwhile.” — Neil Gaiman
"A well-drawn world and characters in a completely original and
unpredictable setting... I don't know a more enjoyable or
intelligent writer of his kind." —Michael Moorcock
“Like Murakami, Brian Eno, or David Lynch, Jonathan Carroll is
entirely sui generis, someone whose work is so fresh, weird, and
original, it stands in a class of its own. Maybe the most striking
thing about this lean, remarkable novel is Carroll's caffeinated
curiosity about everything, his roving eye for everyday wonders,
for the effervescent in the banal. Mr. Breakfast is a small book of
big ideas, a set of Russian nesting dolls with an entire universe
glowing at the center.” —Joe Hill, bestselling author of
Heart-Shaped Box
“Reading Jonathan Carroll, one thinks of a blind person stroking a
drugged tiger—an experience that is sensuous, dreamy, and dangerous
all at once. And then, of course, the tiger wakes up.” — Bruce
Wagner, author of Dead Stars
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