{"product_id":"dead-souls-by-sam-riviere-9781474617666","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Nolan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, intricately humane, and gut-wrenchingly funny... I haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuke Kennard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the wittiest, sharpest, cruellest critiques of literary culture I've ever read.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Whip-smart. Maddening. Weirdly hypnotic. I loved it.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'100 pages in, I was thinking, \"Why bother with anything else? Why bother with lunch?\"'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWiese'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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711231873260,"sku":"9781474617666","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/228393482713.jpg?v=1754202995","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dead-souls-by-sam-riviere-9781474617666","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}