Nicholas Royle's highly praised debut novel recalls David
Mitchell's lyrical bravado: in a world where our very language is
being appropriated by advertising, propaganda and whatever new
technologies can do to mangle it, Royle asserts that the novel has
to survive by adapting, staying fresh-and undergoing bizarre
metamorphoses. Quilt confronts the mad hand of grief while
embracing the endless possibilities of language. Tender, absorbing
and at times shockingly funny, this extraordinary novel is both
mystery and love story. His challenge to and experiments with
literary form forge a new mode of storytelling that is both playful
and inquisitive. He sets about the mundane yet exhausting process
of sorting through the remnants of his father's life - clearing
away years of accumulated objects, unearthing forgotten memories
and the haunted realms of everyday life. At the same time, he
embarks on an eccentric side-project. And as he grows increasingly
obsessed with this new project, his grip on reality seems to slip.
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