We Live Here Now

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beguiling cult favorite C. D. Rose is back with another foray into amysterious, entrancing universe. This time, Rose has trained his sightson the art world in all its glamour, perversity, and ambition. When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation begindisappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people whowere involved in the project, launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory thatwill end at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal. Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists anddeath artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, WeLive Here Now spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, thesheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått129 x 198 x 30 mm
Vikt332 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagMelville House UK
ISBN9781911545897
UtmärkelserWinner of The Goldsmiths Prize 2025

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'Here isa book that shows it is possible for a novel to be at once highly original andto fit within an established tradition... We Live Here Now isboth accessible and challenging.' Daily Telegraph'This isintelligent, playful, intriguing stuff which is also reminiscent of DeLillo andAuster.' The BigIssue'C.D. Rose's latest novel is a surrealjoyride... We Live Here Now is a deeply satisfying literary mystery thatducks and weaves together pressing ideas about how art shapes the way we lookat the world, and the forces at work that dictate what we see.' TLS'The 2025 Goldsmiths prize winner is afitfully brilliant tale set in the art world that blends the arcane with themundane and the uncanny.' Observer'We Live Here Now challenges the novel's form by focusing on texture,atmosphere and resonance...it traces the invisible circuits and networks- of art, capital and war - that shape our lives.' The New Statesman