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OUT OF COMPETITION (Jef Books 2024)
Kenneth Patchen Award for the innovative novel
‘Laugh out loud funny’
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5.0 out of 5 stars
– Intelligent, provocative and fun
UK, October 16, 2024 Review – Cherry Jam
Humorously subversive. It goes so fast I read it in two days. A must for anyone with a love of cinema and its festivals. And the most irreverent novel written about the South of France.
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Comments – Lew Collins’s novels:
Uncorrected Proof ElephantEars Press, 2008, UK
‘This book is inventive, imaginative, and inspiring. It is a unique publication. If you enjoy Italo Calvino or John Fowles, or if you also work or have worked in the book industry, even on the fringes, you would get a great kick out of this novel.’ – Angela Meyer – A Superior Spectre, Moon Sugar, Joan Smokes
With tongue in cheek humor and a sly poke at genre fiction, literary untouchables and the publishing industry this book seems tailor made for smart praise. … flawlessly speaking in all these different voices the book still tells a thoroughly enjoyable pulp story about stolen manuscripts and deferred vengeance in the volatile, cutthroat world of publishing. – Paul Duran, LA director & writer (Flesh Suitcase and The Dogwalker)
I found your book very refreshing…very readable but also so postmodern and referential. I delighted in your sources – Richard Olafson, Editor, Pacific Rim Review
It reads like a splendidly maintained & protracted metafictional elaboration of the climactic shoot-out in the fun-fair corridor of mirrors at the end of Orson Welles’s ‘Lady from Shanghai’. I was glad to see refs. to ‘King of Comedy’, surely one of the last century’s vy best films … – Tom Gibbons, Painter and writer of Rooms in the Darwin Hotel
Quite an extraordinary work. Initially the surreal plot threw me then I realized that the plot….like most coded works, the book consists of two novels seamlessly interwoven. In this case the characters from at least one are able to inhabit the other. This form of yours is.. a very brave new world – Eric Willmot, Pemulwuy and Below The Line
‘Uncorrected Proof’ could be seen as a labyrinthically shaped many-dimensional map, pointing above and beyond itself by showing mirrored images of other places in literary time and space – Kristin Johannesson, Uppsala, Sweden
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