Among the many myths perpetuated by cultural elitists is the idea that literature and genre fiction are antithetical…among the best of the current writers to challenge this misconception is jeff noon…his dystopian, near-future Manchester is an alternative world as well realised as any of Calvino’s imagined cities, his scenes of drug-skewed surrealism bear comparison with the nightmare visions of William Burroughs, attach whatever label you like to noon’s writing, but this is literary innovation – and there is little enough of that going on at the moment for these books to be a cause for celebration
NEW STATESMAN, Martyn Bedford
Jeff Noon continues to break new novelistic ground…his best so far…although each of his five previous books have been experimental, this is the most stylistically ambitious, pushing him beyond the quirky originality of his earlier novels
THE TIMES
Noon splices meaning, plot and character together with a lyrical, poetic avant-gardism that never drifts into self- indulgence… splashes of stark brilliance rupture through as sound and meaning are re-interpreted, words melt like wax as the story is revealed
BIG ISSUE
Provides freeform linguistic blasts of epiphany in which the author’s over-brimming enthusiasm could almost have you dancing to this book
SLEAZENATION
Noon has invented a strange new kind of language: text mixed and sampled like a dance record, chapters repeat themselves – scratched and distorted, remixed and remastered – and there’s a beat underneath it all…as fresh and compulsive as anything you’ll read this year, as exciting as drugs and music
MAXIM
Jeff Noon’s books are so good they should come with a government warning., .with relentless, seething prose akin to a postmodern walt whitman, noon takes the reader to enhanced heights and down again in his darkest, most realistic novel yet
JOCKEY SLUT
For Noon, brilliantly, tomorrow is a blow to the head
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Composed in lush, loose, rhythmic prose that stutters and jumps, screeches and splinters all over the page, needle in the groove offers a brilliant understanding and examination of dance culture and turntablism…call it what you want – metamorphiction, dubtextual adventures, literary bpm or liquid dub poetics, what matters is that you turn off your tv and tune into the mutant beats, wildcat deck scratches and bass pulsations
CITY LIFE
Needle in the Groove is where the mainstream of literature should be in the 21st Century... seething, sexualised, chemically enhanced
THE WIRE
NEW STATESMAN, Martyn Bedford
Jeff Noon continues to break new novelistic ground…his best so far…although each of his five previous books have been experimental, this is the most stylistically ambitious, pushing him beyond the quirky originality of his earlier novels
THE TIMES
Noon splices meaning, plot and character together with a lyrical, poetic avant-gardism that never drifts into self- indulgence… splashes of stark brilliance rupture through as sound and meaning are re-interpreted, words melt like wax as the story is revealed
BIG ISSUE
Provides freeform linguistic blasts of epiphany in which the author’s over-brimming enthusiasm could almost have you dancing to this book
SLEAZENATION
Noon has invented a strange new kind of language: text mixed and sampled like a dance record, chapters repeat themselves – scratched and distorted, remixed and remastered – and there’s a beat underneath it all…as fresh and compulsive as anything you’ll read this year, as exciting as drugs and music
MAXIM
Jeff Noon’s books are so good they should come with a government warning., .with relentless, seething prose akin to a postmodern walt whitman, noon takes the reader to enhanced heights and down again in his darkest, most realistic novel yet
JOCKEY SLUT
For Noon, brilliantly, tomorrow is a blow to the head
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Composed in lush, loose, rhythmic prose that stutters and jumps, screeches and splinters all over the page, needle in the groove offers a brilliant understanding and examination of dance culture and turntablism…call it what you want – metamorphiction, dubtextual adventures, literary bpm or liquid dub poetics, what matters is that you turn off your tv and tune into the mutant beats, wildcat deck scratches and bass pulsations
CITY LIFE
Needle in the Groove is where the mainstream of literature should be in the 21st Century... seething, sexualised, chemically enhanced
THE WIRE
