In the offbeat style of Wes Anderson, a hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten books.
C. D. ROSE is the author of the satirical book The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure (Melville House) and is an award-wining short story writer whose work has appeared in Granta and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of East Anglia, where he also earned an MFA in writing.
"This ingenious, uproarious novel deserves to sit on any
bibliophile's shelf."—Times Literary Supplement
"A riotous, triumphant rattlebag of a novel. C.D.Rose has created
an intricate exploration of literary intrigue, suspense and levity
— lose yourself in this book at once, and savour every moment"—Eley
Williams, author of Attrib. & Other Stories
“Anyone who’s been looking for the same hit to the cerebral cortex
produced when they first encountered Calvino and Borges will read
this extraordinary novel, as I did, with a grateful sense of
urgency. It quenches a thirst you almost forgot you had: endlessly
inventive, wickedly intelligent, funny and melancholic. I don’t
remember the last time I read something this clever, puzzling and
intricate which simultaneously packs so much soul. Who’s Who When
Everyone is Someone Else is so much more than a sequence of bravura
exercises in style; the passages between the lectures have the tone
and elegance of a forgotten masterpiece themselves. It puts us
outside ourselves, beside ourselves, as readers, as critics, as
writers: a total perspective vortex which reminds us, even as it
upends our expectations, why we fell in love with reading in the
first place.” —Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
"Rose's invented canon is delightful: and this ingenious,
uproarious novel deserves to sit on any bibliophile's
shelves."—Times Literary Supplement
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