Praise for The City Changes Its Face

"A portrait of a couple transitioning from a phase of uncomplicated romance to something darker and more profound."-Washington Post

"McBride shares a common lineage with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett--not only as Irish writers but also as unrepentant experimenters with no respect for the sanctity of traditional syntax. In her hands, language is not a tidy vessel for information so much as it is a malleable substance."--NPR

"Conclusively demonstrates why she is one of the most thrilling contemporary English-language writers."--Boston Globe

"The style...like an emotional seismograph registers every nuance of fondness and fear."--Wall Street Journal

"Readers will be swept along by this entrancing tale of love and its many challenges."--Publishers Weekly

"McBride's incomparable writing style [is] rhythmic, muscular, spare, and altogether undefinable."--Booklist

"Utterly riveting. I can't say enough about it. Highly recommend."--Jennifer Haigh

"Lovers in London, but make it daringly modernist and inventive and odd."--Lit Hub

"She belongs on the same continuum as Virginia Woolf in terms of how she experiments with form and how she develops consciousness."--The New York Times

"One of our major novelists . . . the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours."--Guardian

"Blazingly daring."--James Wood, The New Yorker

"Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new. Strange Hotel challenges and expands my sense of what art can do."--Garth Greenwell

"A writer of remarkable power and originality."--Times Literary Supplement

"Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius."--Anne Enright, Guardian

"Her writing has such glorious cadence that it should be read aloud."--The Times

"McBride is a writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off."--Literary Review

"A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end."--Jeanette Winterson