Name: Quilt
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Author: Nicholas Royle
ISBN: 9780956251541

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nicholas Royle

Publisher

Myriad Editions

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780956251541

Edition No.

Synopsis "Quilt "

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.

Nicholas Royle

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Nicholas Royle es profesor emérito de inglés en la Universidad de Sussex, Inglaterra, donde reside desde 1999. También ha impartido clases en la Universidad de Oxford, la Universidad de Tampere (Finlandia) y la Universidad de Stirling; y ha sido profesor visitante en las universidades de Århus (Dinamarca), Santiago de Compostela (España), Turku (Finlandia), Manitoba (Canadá) y Lille (Francia). Es editor jefe de la Oxford Literary Review y director de Quick Fictions .

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