NEXT: The Reviews
"A funny, surprising, and sobering novel...a tour de force."—Publisher's Weekly
"Hang on tight: The novel's mournful overtones rise slowly but firmly in that amazing voice—jocular and honest, clear-eyed and tragic, always winning. By the time you notice Next picking up speed, it's rushing along so fast you'll be completely defenseless when it rips your heart right out."—Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Wildly inventive, stunning...Next is sui generis—an essential piece of American literature that is both of its time and ultimately without present compare."—Tod Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
"Hynes is a rare writer. He is brilliant and humane, and he's created a novel that's as involving as it is dark, as compassionate as it is sad. It's a shocking, original masterpiece, and it is deeply, painfully American."—Michael Schaub, Bookslut
"This book arrives at a resolution that makes breathtakingly perfect sense."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Its final 50 pages are a shock—as vertiginous and stunning as any conclusion in fiction that I can remember over the past decade."—Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This book works—and works gorgeously—in part because the style and substance are inseparable."—Ken Harvey, Edge
"[A] brilliant novel...wise, funny and absolutely gripping."—Matt Soergel, jacksonville.com
"With epigraphs from Virginia Woolf and James Coburn, Hynes’s novel is an unlikely but vigorous hybrid of Woolf’s meandering introspection and Coburn’s offbeat humor."—The New Yorker
"It's a dervish of a tale that whips personal and social anxieties into an unforeseen, but perhaps inevitable, climax."—Mike Shea, Texas Monthly
"Hynes is a flat out great writer and this is his best book yet."—McSweeney's Recommends
"Next may be Hynes' best book—and one that reveals his gifts as a serious novelist."—Lauren Bufferd, BookPage
"Through his neurotic Everyman, Hynes offers provocative insights into the troubling times in which we live."—Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
"Hilarious, insightful, sad, hideous...the ending is simply magnificent."—The Review Broads
"Hynes dives into the deep end of a man's mind without any filters...an interesting and adventurous read."—Lori Twichell, Fiction Addict
"...a haunting ending that hammers home the importance of love."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics
"'Next'—that fatal word for the age-obsessed who fear the effect of time on their biology—has another face: There is a real future and a real way to be an adult."—Roger Gathman, the Austin American-Statesman
"Hang on tight: The novel's mournful overtones rise slowly but firmly in that amazing voice—jocular and honest, clear-eyed and tragic, always winning. By the time you notice Next picking up speed, it's rushing along so fast you'll be completely defenseless when it rips your heart right out."—Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Wildly inventive, stunning...Next is sui generis—an essential piece of American literature that is both of its time and ultimately without present compare."—Tod Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
"Hynes is a rare writer. He is brilliant and humane, and he's created a novel that's as involving as it is dark, as compassionate as it is sad. It's a shocking, original masterpiece, and it is deeply, painfully American."—Michael Schaub, Bookslut
"This book arrives at a resolution that makes breathtakingly perfect sense."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Its final 50 pages are a shock—as vertiginous and stunning as any conclusion in fiction that I can remember over the past decade."—Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This book works—and works gorgeously—in part because the style and substance are inseparable."—Ken Harvey, Edge
"[A] brilliant novel...wise, funny and absolutely gripping."—Matt Soergel, jacksonville.com
"With epigraphs from Virginia Woolf and James Coburn, Hynes’s novel is an unlikely but vigorous hybrid of Woolf’s meandering introspection and Coburn’s offbeat humor."—The New Yorker
"It's a dervish of a tale that whips personal and social anxieties into an unforeseen, but perhaps inevitable, climax."—Mike Shea, Texas Monthly
"Hynes is a flat out great writer and this is his best book yet."—McSweeney's Recommends
"Next may be Hynes' best book—and one that reveals his gifts as a serious novelist."—Lauren Bufferd, BookPage
"Through his neurotic Everyman, Hynes offers provocative insights into the troubling times in which we live."—Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
"Hilarious, insightful, sad, hideous...the ending is simply magnificent."—The Review Broads
"Hynes dives into the deep end of a man's mind without any filters...an interesting and adventurous read."—Lori Twichell, Fiction Addict
"...a haunting ending that hammers home the importance of love."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics
"'Next'—that fatal word for the age-obsessed who fear the effect of time on their biology—has another face: There is a real future and a real way to be an adult."—Roger Gathman, the Austin American-Statesman