THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD is published in paperback from Bloomsbury. You can buy it here.

A wild, sleazy, drug-filled odyssey… Doyle’s maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way. - Independent

If this blurb were a movie title it would go like this: Threshold, or, how I learned to stop worrying (about what sort of novel this is) and love the narrator, whose brilliance and humour on drugs and literature, sex and boredom and death, leave me in awe. - Rachel Kushner

Audacious, daring and deranged, endlessly entertaining, furiously funny and – to hurtle to the other end of the alphabet – wonderful. Above all, it’s a highly original attempt to engage, formally, with Nietzsche’s dangerous question: "How much truth can one mind bear?" - Geoff Dyer

Dark, misanthropic, provocative. There’s an adage that good writing should disturb the comfortable and comfortable the disturbed; Doyle’s writing really “goes there” and emerges triumphant. - Irish Times

This is the type of brilliant, maverick achievement that sets a writer apart. Wonderfully readable and with a skein of black comedy running through it that serves to highlight the seriousness of Doyle's intent. A Pilgrim's Progress for our time. - Mike McCormack

I was buzzing after reading Threshold: it's the kind of work you have to come down from - playful, potent, lurid, moving and fearless. - Lisa McInerney

Threshold is Rob Doyle's best book yet, a thrilling mutation somewhere between novel, essay collection, report, travelogue and confession. Doyle is a Romantic wandering in the post-sublime, a zealot without a cause, and his is a journey you don't want to miss. - Chris Power

An extremely funny book, a novel that sends itself up mercilessly even as it is created. His best work to date. - Kevin Barry

Extraordinary, quite unlike anything I’ve read before. It’s fearless and challenging, inventive and compulsive, unique and utterly heartfelt. Masterful. - John Boyne

Confirms his status as one of the most original and intelligent writers at work today. - Donal Ryan

The geographic and intellectual peregrinations of Threshold cover a great deal of terrain: tripping (both the drug and day variety), vast swathes of Europe, reading, loneliness, sex. Rob Doyle’s portrait of the artist as a youngish man, filtered through the sieve of his refined prose, is the modern-day odyssey of a traveler who doesn’t quite have a home to return to except for the expansive vistas of his own roving mind. - Teddy Wayne