Quintesse by Kevin Kiely'There will be those who'll say it's a cop out, and those who'll say it's a manifesto; those who'll say it's a fragment, and those who'll say it's a bible. There will be those who'll say it's drunk on its own excesses; and those who'll say this very delirium is its greatness.'-Aubrey Dillon-Malone The Evening Herald.'Neither slick nor over-clever, betraying all the ingredients of the genuine fools of literature in whom an unconscious nobility rather than rebellion is the mainspring.'-Gillman Noonan The Irish Times'Kiely's prose presents a stream of surreal images, evoking an Ireland that is part real and part literary tradition.' -Stephen H Cape Library Journal New York'As did the mature Nabokov in Ada, the novice Kiely offers a sort of palimpsest of erotic memories, in which old experience glimmers beneath the surface of new.' -Stephen Whittaker Best Seller New York'This first novel has quite a simple plot, I have read it three times to establish this, and it was worth it.'-Gerry Colgan The Irish Independent