{"product_id":"dead-souls-paperback-13","title":"Dead Souls - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Riviere\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Roberto Bolaño's \u003ci\u003eSavage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e and Muriel Spark's \u003ci\u003eLoitering with Intent\u003c\/i\u003e, this \"sublime\" and \"delightfully unhinged\" metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of \u003ci\u003eImaginary Museums\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night--and the remainder of the novel--to tell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with \"nothingness,\" a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, 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 narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Riviere\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a trilogy of poetry books, \u003ci\u003e81 Austerities\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) \u003ci\u003eKim Kardashian's Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eAfter Fame\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), all published by Faber, and a book of experimental prose, \u003ci\u003eSafe Mode\u003c\/i\u003e (Test Centre, 2017). He teaches at Durham University and lives in Edinburgh where he runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.66 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158629716103,"sku":"9781646221332","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/aac560d0789f356b2eb6c4e2e95206b8.webp?v=1733260274","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dead-souls-paperback-13","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}