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. For listeners of Roberto Bolaos Savage Detectives and Muriel Sparks Loitering with Intent, this sublime and. '100 pages in, I was thinking, 'Why bother with anything else? Why bother with lunch?'' GuardianĪt the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls 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. 'One of the wittiest, sharpest, cruellest critiques of literary culture I've ever read' Independent I haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time' Luke Kennard 'Beautiful, intricately humane, and gut-wrenchingly funny. 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 We can only serve the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii.An extraordinary debut novel from an award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs, cancellation and revenge, and how writing really does alter reality

Wiese 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.

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. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism.

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