{"product_id":"9781474617666","title":"Dead Souls","description":"Author: Sam Riviere\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781474617666\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Jun 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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' \u003cb\u003eMegan Nolan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Beautiful, intricately humane, and gut-wrenchingly funny . . . I haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time' \u003cb\u003eLuke Kennard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the wittiest, sharpest, cruellest critiques of literary culture I've ever read' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Whip-smart. Maddening. Weirdly hypnotic. I loved it' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'100 pages in, I was thinking, \"Why bother with anything else? Why bother with lunch?\"' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e meets the disgraced poet Solomon Wiese, and hears the story of his spectacular fall from grace - a story that will take the entire night to tell.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Wiese's story involves a plagiarism scandal, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, a retreat to the East Anglian countryside, and his plans for a triumphant return to the capital - plans in which our unnamed narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated ...","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46375457259678,"sku":"ADS-9781474617666","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781474617666.jpg?v=1767671120","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781474617666","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}