PositiveBookforumCompulsively readable, these anecdotes deliver the atmosphere that diners have come to expect of McNally’s hospitality: decadence and glamour made accessible through a light touch and a louche, punchy style ... What’s most surprising and revealing about the book is its earnest attempt to account for all that McNally has lost ... McNally recounts his early life in remarkable detail ... McNally can tend to draw the women in his life in one dimension ... McNally’s failures to make meaningful links between past and present, emotion and action, action and consequence, reveal a tendency to evacuate rather than metabolize his experiences. This can make for good entertainment, but not great art.
