{"product_id":"dead-souls-9781474617642b","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of clever postmodern flourishes, self-referential winks and riotous set pieces. It's funny, smart and beautifully written' Alex Preston, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I absolutely adored\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Dead Souls\u003c\/span\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 \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eActs of Desperation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e'I first heard about Solomon Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank...'\u003c\/span\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.","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42823109771344,"sku":"9781474617642B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781474617642-l.jpg?v=1785890900","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/dead-souls-9781474617642b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}