{"product_id":"dead-souls-5","title":"Sam Riviere: Dead Souls [2022] paperback","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 Bolano, 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":"Riviere, Sam","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49211380859219,"sku":"9781474617666","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47329583202643,"sku":"XG81474617666","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/riviere-sam-sam-riviere-dead-souls-2022-paperback-58269284073811.jpg?v=1727963419","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/dead-souls-5","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}