Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else

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In the offbeat style of Wes Anderson, a hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten books. Fleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books ... only to find himself involved in a mystery when it turns out the professor who invited him is no where to be found, and no one seems quite sure why he's there.

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"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 whos 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 dont remember the last time I read something this clever, puzzling and intricate which simultaneously packs so much soul. Whos 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

Author Bio

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.