{"product_id":"dead-souls-7","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could keep reading'' Jonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Full of clever postmodern flourishes, self-referential winks and riotous set pieces. It''s funny, smart and beautifully written'' Alex Preston, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I absolutely adored \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. Reading it felt like overhearing the most exhilarating, funny, mean conversation imaginable--which is to say it made me extremely happy and I dreaded it ending'' Megan Nolan, author of \u003ci\u003eActs of Desperation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''I first heard about Solomon Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank...''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLater that evening, at the bar of the Travelodge near Waterloo Bridge, our unnamed narrator will encounter that very same Solomon Wiese.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a conversation that lasts until morning, he will hear Solomon Wiese''s story of his spectacular fall from grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story about a scandal that has shaken the literary world and an accusation of serial plagiarism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story about childhood encounters with nothingness and a friend''s descent into psychosis; about conspiracies and poetry cults; about a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost and the death of an old poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story about a retreat to the East Anglian countryside and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits and faked social media accounts - plans in which our unnamed narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story that will take the entire night - and the remainder of the novel - to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Reading \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e feels like discovering the British Bolaño, and not just for the gleeful dismantling of the cultural ego: the restless, searching sensibility; the precise tuning-in to contradictory voices. I haven''t been so excited by a debut novel in a long time'' Luke Kennard, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Transition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Elegant, ambitious, very serious and very funny'' Katharine Kilalea, author of \u003ci\u003eOK, Mr. Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Sublime, legendary, delightfully unhinged. A rare and brilliant pleasure'' Nicolette Polek, author of \u003ci\u003eImaginary Museums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314061648254,"sku":"NW9781474617666","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474617666.jpg?v=1778529919","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dead-souls-7","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}