Dead Writers in Rehab

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Paul Bassett Davies, Bassett Davies Paul

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The only thing worse thanwaking up with the hangover from hellis waking up with a hangover in hell.When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been consigned to rehab (yet again). But when he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway, he realises there's something different about this place...Is Foster dead? Has his less-than-saintly existence finally caught up with him? After a hostile group therapy session with Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it seems likely. But he still feels alive, especially after he gets laid by Dorothy Parker.When he discovers that the two enigmatic doctors who run the institution are being torn apart by a thwarted love affair, he and the other writers must work together to save something bigger than their own gigantic egos. Set in a place that's part Priory, part Purgatory, Dead Writers in Rehab is a darkly funny tale about the strange and terrible entanglement of creativity and addiction, told by a charming, selfish bastard.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-09
Mått129 x 198 x 27 mm
Vikt298 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
Upplaga2
FörlagEye Books
ISBN9781785634000

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Paul Bassett Davies contributed to many of the most successful radio and TV shows of the Eighties and Nineties, writing for Spitting Image, Rory Bremner and Jasper Carrott. He wrote the screenplay for the 2005 feature animation film The Magic Roundabout and has written and produced music videos with Kate Bush and Ken Russell. He is a former creative director of the London Comedy Writers Festival. His first novel, Utter Folly, topped Amazon's humorous fiction chart when it was published in 2012. He is also the author of the novels Dead Writers in Rehab and Please Do Not Ask for Mercy as a Refusal Often Offends.

‘It is dark, dirty, grim and confusing – in a very good way. It’s also warm, humane, funny and mischievous’ Jeremy Hardy‘A hilarious book that starts with a rather weird premise about the afterlife and takes it to brilliant, eventually emotionally wrecking places. It is almost indescribably good’ Elliott Downing‘Ambitious and entertaining in every sense. Just fabulous. One of the funniest books I have read in a long time’ The Last World Book Review‘Like a light-hearted One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest if the patients were authors. It’s a brilliant concept with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. It’s totally unique while managing to be intelligent and funny at the same time' Elementary V Watson‘A tour de force: a comedy with dark undertones... Spoofs from very famous literary styles with dazzling skill’ Charles Harris‘A splendid dark comedy: most of the chapters are in the form of patients’ recovery diaries, so you’ve got a parade of pastiche voices that is a joy to read. But, just when you think you have the novel pinned down, it reveals a serious heart – and changes shape more than once. A delight’ David’s Book World