"Banville is up to some fine mischief here . . . [His characters] have no way of knowing how luscious and finely wrought are the exquisite sentences in which their sad lives and inscrutable fates are described and revealed. Such is the beauty of Banville's prose that every page of The Singularities is a perplexing and enigmatic delight."
--Troy Jollimore, Washington Post

"Gorgeously written and superbly choreographed."
--Kevin Power, Irish Independent

"One can linger in the lushness of the prose and admire the extraordinary capaciousness of Banville's unique imagination . . . Banville is one of the most substantial Irish writers of the past 50 years. In this book, as in others, he has created a work that meditates in highly sophisticated ways on the nature of reality, existence, knowledge, art, love, and death. His continued experimentalism marks him out as the most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years."
--Eoghan Smith, Irish Times

"A beguiling book . . . Astonishingly lovely."
--Claire Allfree, Daily Mail

"Full of exquisite prose, humour and stunning flights of fancy, [Banville's literary novels] have secured his reputation as one of the best stylists of his generation . . . The book is a pleasure to read. There is a descriptive verve, too . . . He seems to have had the time of his life writing this novel."
--Ian Critchley, Literary Review

"John Banville is a marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . You read him--at least, I read him--for the prose, the richness of the characterization, all the better for seldom being fully fleshed-out, for the glittering and sometimes mischievous intelligence, and most of all for his uncanny ability to render mood and atmosphere into verbal pictures . . . Nobody does this sort of thing better . . . He is a magician, really."
--Allan Massie, The Scotsman

"This novel is essence of Banville . . . There is the usual sumptuous style . . . He retains a brilliant grasp of imagery . . . There is a welcome sense of playfulness . . . Banville is clearly having a lot of fun."
--John Self, Daily Telegraph

"A feast for Banville superfans and newbies alike, The Singularities is a multiverse triumph."
--Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire (Best Books of Fall)

"Banville gives readers an exquisite and mischievously voyeuristic view into the lives of others . . . Banville's crisp wit, sardonic humor, and unique style will keep readers on edge, smiling and questioning, entranced and thoroughly entertained until the very end."
--George Kendall, Booklist (starred)

"Banville's poetical fiction explores the implications of the theory of singularity through the human perception of memory, loss, and guilt, even as he slyly braids together characters and themes from his past novels into a meta-narrative about the haunting implications of parallel universes."
--Library Journal (starred)

"An intriguing puzzle box . . . Banville seems simply to revel in the delights of creativity, piling up wordplay and allusions (to Joyce, Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov), playing the god of his literary realm, and all this with constant flashes of exquisite writing."
--Kirkus Reviews

"An artful and atmospheric story of redemption . . . With penetrating psychological insight, Banville tracks the private struggles of these mismatched trespassers . . . The book boasts some of Banville's greatest prose . . . A fine addition to a brilliant body of work."
--Publishers Weekly