Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture.
The Times
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
The Independent
There are echoes of Beckett, Flann O'Brien too, perhaps, but in the end McCarthy has a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit that is all his own. It will be a long time before you come across a stranger book, or a truer one.
Rupert Thomson
The Observer
Remainder, with seamless prose, endlessly probes the surface of the "event", its infinite elements, angles, perspectives, how it comes about, how it can be brought about again, then lived and relived in Ballardian orbits and Beckettian vibrations... It will remain with you long after you have felt compelled to re-read it.
Time Out
Strangely gripping... Remainder should be read (and, of course, reread) for its intelligence and humour.
The Times Literary Supplement
This isn’t how we expect a novel to be, but it’s why it’s a very good novel indeed.
London Review of Books
McCarthy delivers his wacky tale, an enquiry into authenticity and experience, with persuasive logic and a nice line in absurdist humour.
Literary Review
...Enthralling, dotted with dark humour and undoubted originality
The Irish Times
The storyline mesmerises in its imaginative brilliance
The Sunday Telegraph
This is a refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read by a writer with ideas and talent
The Guardian