Gavin Kovite

Praise for War of the Encyclopaedists

Publisher's description. Hilarious and heartbreaking, a coming-of-age tale for modern America. Mickey and Halifax are best friends: held together by a sense of humour, shared memories, world-class parties, but pus ...

Penguin

A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac - a novel that leaves us with revealing snapshots of America, and telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to g ...

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation... this might be their defining novel

Esquire

Publisher's description. Hilarious and heartbreaking, a coming-of-age tale for modern America. Mickey and Halifax are best friends: held together by a sense of humour, shared memories, world-class parties, but pus ...

Penguin

A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac - a novel that leaves us with revealing snapshots of America, and telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to g ...

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation... this might be their defining novel

Esquire

Publisher's description. Hilarious and heartbreaking, a coming-of-age tale for modern America. Mickey and Halifax are best friends: held together by a sense of humour, shared memories, world-class parties, but pus ...

Penguin

A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac - a novel that leaves us with revealing snapshots of America, and telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to g ...

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation... this might be their defining novel

Esquire