Exquisite Corpse Game - Surrealist Party Game for Adults & Artists | Perfect for Creative Gatherings, Icebreakers & Art Nights

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'Robert Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying.' A.S.Byatt in The Sunday Times Books of the Year 'Exquisite Corpse is among the most adventurous, ambitious and daring novels published so far this decade.' Nicholas Royle in Time Out 'Robert Irwin's spectacular intense novel of love and madness among the provincial British surrealist movement works all the better because authentic factual detail is woven so effectively into the fancy.' Roz Kaveney in The New Statesman & Society 'The final chapter of the novel reads like a realistic epilogue to the book, but may instead be a hypnogogic illusion, which in turn casts doubt on many other events in the novel. Is Caroline merely a typist from Putney or the very vampire of Surrealism It's for the reader to decide.' Steven Moore in The Washington Post 'Robert Irwin is a master of the surreal imagination. Historical figures such as Aleister Crowley and Paul Eluard vie with fictional characters in an extended surrealist game, which, like the movement itself, is full of astonishing insights and hilarious pretensions. Superb.' Ian Critchley in The Sunday Times 'There's something tremendously soothing about this hysterical novel, as if the world destroys and remakes itself more often than we think.' Susan Salter Reynolds in The Los Angeles Times 'It is a rapid read in which the deftly drawn mood and perfect-pitch dialogue function as a sleight-of-hand allowing the plot to spring its surprises with flair.' Peter Plagens in Bookforum