{"product_id":"dead-souls-9781646221332","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646221332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Sam Riviere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42222972207285,"sku":"9781646221332","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_59bf52f6-2fe3-4b8c-99ed-4fa5a1034f49.jpg?v=1655779814","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-souls-9781646221332","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}