DEAD SOULS follows the course of a single big night - most of which is spent in the bar at the Travelodge just off Waterloo Bridge. There the unnamed narrator meets Solomon Wiese, a poet who has been ostracized by the community after failing to pass a technology-based authenticity test. Solomon Wiese's account of his rise and fall is a story that takes him the entire night and the remainder of the novel to tell. It is a story that touches on - amongst many other things - childhood encounters with 'nothingness', a retreat to the east of England, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, and Wiese's plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits and faked social media accounts - plans in which the narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated...

Review
The Guardian , 1 of the 10 Best Debut Novelists of the Year
BuzzFeed , A Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A New Statesman Most Anticipated Book of the Year
"Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could keep reading." -Jonathan Lethem
"Full of clever postmodern flourishes, self-referential winks and riotous set pieces. It's funny, smart and beautifully written." -Alex Preston, The Guardian
"Riviere . . . artfully blends metaphysics, existentialism, ideas of originality, and plagiarism, plus an enticing dose of history and memoir in this captivating read." - Reader's Digest , A Best Fiction Book of the Year
"Riviere's provocative debut novel . . . calls to mind Thomas Bernhard not only for its form but its rhythm and cadence . . . Will appeal to fans of Kate Zambreno's Drifts." - Publishers Weekly
"As Brontë does so disarmingly in Wuthering Heights and Nabokov in Pale Fire , Sam Riviere gives a loquacious and pleasingly unreliable nobody the task of telling the tale of Dead Souls ' true protagonist: Solomon Weise, a recently excommunicated poet who seems to have been everywhere and known everyone. In long, sure sentences reminiscent of Thomas Bernhard, Riviere cracks open the administrative heart of the contemporary literary endeavor, finding it full not of hot air but of crowds of characters, a whole shimmering historical ecosystem--in short, the world as we know it, as mesmerizingly real as it is fictional." --Lucy Ives, author of Cosmogony and Loudermilk
"Sublime, legendary, delightfully unhinged. Sam Riviere's Dead Souls is a rare and brilliant pleasure, a coiling, searing fugue of a book that takes our deranged culture and pulls forth from it a box of stars." --Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums
"Beautiful, intricately humane, and gut-wrenchingly funny; not so much cynical as a ruthless vivisection of cynicism itself. Reading Dead Souls feels like discovering the British Bolaño, and not just for the gleeful dismantling of the cultural ego: the restless, searching sensibility; the precise tuning-in to contradictory voices. I haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time." --Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
"I absolutely adored Dead Souls. Reading it felt like overhearing the most exhilarating, funny, mean conversation imaginable--which is to say it made me extremely happy and I dreaded it ending." -Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation

"Dead Souls is elegant, ambitious, very serious and very funny--an enlivening burst of anti-anti-intellectualism." -Katharine Kilalea, author of OK, Mr. Field
"Dead Souls is a whip smart, razor sharp, wise-funny, highly readable animal of a first novel, and I can't recommend it enthusiastically enough." -Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome

About the Author
Sam Riviere is the author of a trilogy of poetry books, 81 Austerities (2012) Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015), and After Fame (2020), all published by Faber, and a book of experimental prose, Safe Mode (Test Centre, 2017). He teaches at Durham University and lives in Edinburgh where he runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.

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