About the Author

Adam Mansbach s books include the number one international bestseller "Go the Fuck to Sleep, "the California Book Award winning novel "The End of the Jews, "and the cult classic "Angry Black White Boy. "His work has appeared in "The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, "and "The Believer, "and on National Public Radio s "All Things Considered.""

Reviews

"Mansbach has clearly had a play date with Michael Chabon and Junot Diaz, and his fresh, witty novel is one that hip readers will relish . . . Laced with zaniness and cultural bling."
"" ""Ron Charles, ""Washington Post"" A rollicking, frenetic and hilarious jaunt through the (literal and figurative) New York City underworld . . . [that] does for graffiti what Michael Chabon's ""The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"" did for comic books . . . ""[Rage is Back] ""mashes up disparate linguistic registers with an effortlessness that brings to mind Junot Diaz s perennial narrator, Junior . . . Beneath all the weed and spray paint, it s a warmhearted story about a son searching for his father and for himself, a trip through the past and present of an American art form.
David Lukas, ""San Francisco Chronicle "" Mansbach s wild ride will likely earn cult-classic status and deservedly so . . . In Dondi, Mansbach has created an unforgettable narrator who combines elements of Holden Caulfield, Oscar Wao, and even a hint of Ignatius J. Reilly.
Eric Liebetrau, ""Boston Globe"" Flashing bits of brilliance like a beautifully burned train . . . Mansbach can write with real talent, maybe crazy talent.
Kevin Baker, ""The New York Times Book Review"" A hilarious revenge thriller. . . [that reads] something like watching a Quentin Tarantino film or listening to a Wu-Tang Clan album perhaps simultaneously. This is a great thing. ""Rage Is Back"" has humor and horror and humanity and is altogether fresh.
Kevin Coval, ""Chicago Tribune"" Exuberant . . . Mansbach s paean to graffiti art . . . has a wild-style collage form that also ties in plot points involving a hallucinogenic vision-quest, the so-called mole people said to live in the city s tunnels, and time travel.
""The Wall Street Journal "" A muscular ode to New York City s 1980s art underground . . . Combines a poet's touch with the wild sparks of a subway train speeding through a graffiti-splashed tunnel.
"" Elle Magazine"" ""Rage Is Back ""is a gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graffiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, funny, and thoroughly engaging writer.
Tom Perrotta, author of ""Little Children"" and ""The Leftovers"" Adam Mansbach's new novel is a trip! A trip through dimensions, drugs, and even an ingenious time machine. Rage is Back is hilarious and insightful, tender and surprising, but best of all it's a tribute to the old heads, the bombers and taggers and the glory of writing in all its forms.
Victor LaValle, author of ""The Devil in Silver""and ""Big Machine"" """Rage Is Back""is a funny, macho-but-vulnerable coming-of-age-story. It s seeped in New York nostalgia and narrated in bright and vulgar prose that succeeds in hinting at no small quantity of swagger and soul. As Dondi says, it s not easy to talk from your heart and out your ass at the same time. Delightfully, ""Rage Is Back""manages to do both."
"" Daily Beast"" A bracingly funny book [that] rekindles the golden age of graffiti.
Connie Ogle, ""Miami Herald "" "A cacophonous love letter to the old dirty, pre-gentrified New York."
"New York Post" A fierce and funny thrill ride through the train yards and back streets of the graffiti underground. Mansbach writes with splendid rhythm and intensity.
""San Jose Mercury News"" A rambunctious ride through graffiti culture, filled with magical moments and outlandish situations . . . Like Tarantino, Mansbach has an ear for hip-hop.
Charles Ealy, ""Austin American-Statesman "" Unfolding like a fever dream of an impossible return to graffiti-era New York, ""Mansbach s Rage Is Back"" delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called the great American graffiti novel. A must-read for the literate hip-hop head.
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"A bracingly funny book [that] rekindles the golden age of graffiti."
--Connie Ogle, "Miami Herald"


"A cacophonous love letter to the old dirty, pre-gentrified New York."
--"New York Post"



"A muscular ode to New York City's 1980s art underground . . . Combines a poet's touch with the wild sparks of a subway train speeding through a graffiti-splashed tunnel."
"--Elle"


"A rambunctious ride through graffiti culture, filled with magical moments and outlandish situations . . . Like Tarantino, Mansbach has an ear for hip-hop."
--Charles Ealy, "Austin American-Statesman"


"A rollicking, frenetic and hilarious jaunt through the (literal and figurative) New York City underworld . . . [that] does for graffiti what Michael Chabon's ""The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"" did for comic books . . . "[Rage is Back] "mashes up disparate linguistic registers with an effortlessness that brings to mind Junot Diaz's perennial narrator, Junior . . . Beneath all the weed and spray paint, it's a warmhearted story about a son searching for his father and for himself, a trip through the past and present of an American art form."
--David Lukas, " San Francisco Chronicle"



"Exuberant . . . Mansbach's paean to graffiti art . . . has a wild-style collage form that also ties in plot points involving a hallucinogenic vision-quest, the so-called 'mole people' said to live in the city's tunnels, and time travel."
--"The Wall Street Journal"



""Rage Is Back" is a funny, macho-but-vulnerable coming-of-age-story. It's seeped in New York nostalgia and narrated in bright and vulgar prose that succeeds in hinting at no small quantity of swagger and soul. As Dondi says, 'it's not easy to talk from your heart and out your ass at the same time.' Delightfully, ""Rage Is Back"" manages to do both."
"--""Daily Beast"


"A fierce and funny thrill ride through the train yards and back streets of the graffiti underground. Mansbach writes with splendid rhythm and intensity."
"--""San Jose Mercury News"


""Rage Is Back "is a gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graffiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, funny, and thoroughly engaging writer."
--Tom Perrotta, author of "Little Children" and "The Leftovers"

"Adam has given us a lush tale of time travel, mysticism, justice, the adventures of a boy and his dad--woven into the fabric of a bygone era in NYC. "Rage Is Back" is fresh, compelling and nostalgic all at once--a must for lovers of graf culture and those of us who lived it. A great read."
--Pharoahe Monch

"Adam Mansbach's "Rage Is Back" is a great, raucous ride--a lament for the hypocrisy of the present, as well as an ode to a lost NYC of the Eighties, where street art and cultural chaos were in constant struggle against greed and corruption. The voice of the narrator--melancholy and hilarious, acerbic and wise--leaps out from page one, grabs you and doesn't let go."
--Danzy Senna, author of "Caucasia"

"Adam Mansbach's "Rage Is Back" is a profound reminder of why fiction matters. A riotous and propulsive read, this darkly poetic novel took me places I could never get to with my own two feet, and introduced me to souls living colorfully outside the mainstream. Behind its street boy pose is an ambitious novel about family, friendship and the ties that bind. Mansbach makes it look easy."
--Attica Locke, author of "Blackwater Rising" and "The Cutting Season"

"Adam Mansbach's new novel is a trip! A trip through dimensions, drugs, and even an ingenious time machine. "Rage Is Back" is hilarious and insightful, tender and surprising, but best of all it's a tribute to the old heads, the bombers and taggers and the glory of writing in all its forms."
--Victor LaValle, author of "The Devil in Silver" and "Big Machine"


"An ambitious and immersive look into the New York graffiti scene. A finely detailed, richly colored work drawn with an artful hand."
--Chuck Hogan, author of "The Town "

"Carlos Castaneda meets underground New York with a subway tunnel sensibility . . . Sure to be a cult classic and cause a stir."
--"Library Journal"


"Hits the ground running and never stops . . . Mansbach's sharp and edgy style carries this fresh story in and out of subway tunnels and through the grimiest neighborhoods of New York, bringing the New York of now and then together in full relief."
-- Heather Paulson, "Booklist"


"Slick, outlandish . . . Mansbach's novel is a fun and exciting read."
--"Publishers Weekly"


"Thrilling . . . Electric with rhythm . . . The book is peppered with grandfatherly revolutionaries, slang-slinging young bloods and an army of paint-wielding ninjas who unite with military precision on an ambitious plan to graffiti-bomb every single train car on the MTA."
--"Kirkus Reviews"


"Adam Mansbach's "Rage is Back" is a profound reminder of why fiction matters. A riotous and propulsive read, this darkly poetic novel took me places I could never get to with my own two feet, and introduced me to souls living colorfully outside the mainstream. Behind its street boy pose is an ambitious novel about family, friendship and the ties that bind. Mansbach makes it look easy." --Attica Locke, author of "Blackwater Rising" and "The Cutting Season"
--Attica Locke, author of Blackwater Rising and The Cutting Season

"Adam Mansbach's "Rage is Back" is a great, raucous ride--a lament for the hypocrisy of the present, as well as an ode to a lost NYC of the Eighties, where street art and cultural chaos were in constant struggle against greed and corruption. The voice of the narrator--melancholy and hilarious, acerbic and wise--leaps out from page one, grabs you and doesn't let go." --Danzy Senna, author of "Caucasia"
--Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia

"Mansbach was minding his own business as a respected novelist... when he pulled an extraordinary coup by writing the No. 1 New York Times best-selling "Go the F**k To Sleep." His new novel [has] the same refreshing edginess. You don't have to be a New Yorker to enjoy this ode to urban ingenuity." --"Library Journal"