How to Sell

A funny yet sad coming-of-age story

Jonathan Eyers, Metro

Need a reason to reconsider buying a dubious Faberge egg this week? Try this tale of sex, drugs and dirty diamonds by a former jeweller (now philosophy professor), in which a young man is sucked into the depraved dark side of the high-end gems trade.

Lauren Laverne, Grazia

Smart, devious and sad

Catherine Taylor, Guardian

Dirty, greatly original, and very hard to stop reading

Jonathan Franzen

With this fast, dark novel, Clancy Martin shows there's no reason why a former jeweler who translates Nietzsche can't write like an angel on meth

Bloomberg

How To Sell is a bleak, funny, unforgiving novel about how we buy and sell everything - merchandise, drugs, sex, trust, power, peace of mind, religion, friendship, and each other. It's written extremely finely, with wit and enviable self-control. A genuinely fresh, disconcerting voice

Zadie Smith

A funny, quirky takedown of the American dream. A bastard child of John Updike and Mordechai Richler, How To Sell grabs you by the tuchus and doesn't let go

Gary Shteyngart

Succeeds in the most important way a novel can: it makes a previously unimagined world as real as your own. A wonderful debut

John Niven, author of KILL YOUR FRIENDS

A relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of most transactions - sex and money

Francesca Segal, Observer

This book smells like a hit

Vogue

A very good debut

Craig Raine, Times Literary Supplement

A strange, dirty, inside look at the jewellery business which reads like a manic buying spree or a cocaine jag and ends so wrenchingly I still feel scarred by it

The Guardian, Jonathan Franzen