All My Colors - Brossura

Quantick, David

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ISBN 10: 1785658573 ISBN 13: 9781785658570

Casa editrice: Titan Books, 2019

Riassunto

From Emmy-award winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman and Franz Kafka.

It is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesn't seem to exist.

With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he can't write. But the book - All My Colors - is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will "write" this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobody's heard of it, how can he get into trouble?

As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high - and painful - price to pay for his crime.

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"David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. He's smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret." --Neil Gaiman

"It is difficult to believe a book can be so funny and so chilling at the same time." --The Sun

"Horribly brilliant... A laugh-out-loud-while-you-wince novel." --SFX

"From marital ennui to writerly pretensions, it all feels hewn in reality." --SciFiNow

"Really rich, funny, unsettling and just very alive. A brilliant premise executed with total confidence and authority." --John Niven

"Among the funniest, creepiest, truest books about writing I've ever read... It'd be a best-seller in The Twilight Zone, and ought to be in whichever Zone we live in too." --Kim Newman

"Quantick ably sketches an unappealing but interesting protagonist swiftly out of his depth, and the slowly unfolding literary menace will appeal to fans of Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs (1980) or of literary-themed horror in general." --Booklist

"All My Colors is by turns a supernatural revenge fantasy, a black comedy, and a self-abnegating parody. It is hysterical, shocking, and propulsive leave the lights on for its end." --Foreword Magazine

"Wonderfully bizarre... As a twisty and fitfully funny episode of The Twilight Zone, it's a blast. A caustic, unexpected comic horror story in which the villain, as always, thinks he's the hero." --Kirkus

"With his witty, cautionary horror story, David Quantick entertains readers from start to finish: he turns his sharp eye on the dynamics of publishing industry in a novel that explores the nature of story-telling itself... Fast-paced and easy to read, this novel is a must-read for fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Drew Magary and John Niven." --Mystery Tribune

"Part mystery, part fantasy, All My Colors rainbow of sensations won t leave readers unfazed." - BookPage

"[A] twisting puzzle of a book." --Barnes & Noble SFF blog

"A clever, funny, and moving novel." -- The Dreamcage

"Too many novels about fictional stories do a terrible job of convincing the reader that the subject matter is actually worthwhile: this is one of those rare books that creates a wholly convincing novel on which to hang its plot." --The Frumious Consortium

"if you re looking a for a sharp funny horror story that makes you both care for and hate its lead (at the same time) then this would be well worth your time." --Runalong The Shelves

PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

"David Quantick has a medical condition whereby he literally cannot be unfunny." --Caitlin Moran

"I will go back to reading David Quantick's excellent Sparks now." --Neil Gaiman

"If you choose to only live in one alternative reality make sure it's the one in which you read Sparks by David Quantick." --Ben Aaronovitch

"Ingenious, likeable, funny and entertaining." --The Spectator

L'autore:

David Quantick is a television writer and radio broadcaster with his own critically rated shows One, 52 First Impressions and The Blaggers Guide. He has written TV comedies including Veep (for which he won an Emmy), The Thick of It, The Day Today and more. He is the author of novels Sparks, The Mule, and is the author of two writing manuals, How To Write Everything and How To Be A Writer.

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• Editore: Titan Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1785658573
• ISBN 13: 9781785658570
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 287