Publication Date: 16/04/2019 ISBN: 9781785658570 Category:

All My Colors

David Quantick

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Publication Date: 16/04/2019 ISBN: 9781785658570 Category:
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“David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. He’s smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret.”
– Neil Gaiman

It is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesn’t seem to exist.

With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he can’t write. But the book – All My Colors – is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will “write” this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobody’s heard of it, how can he get into trouble?

As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high – and painful – price to pay for his crime.

“A morality tale, a comedy, a horror story rolled into one. All My Colors has it all.”
– The Sun

“Really rich, funny, unsettling and just very alive. A brilliant premise executed with total confidence and authority.”
– John Niven, author of Kill Your Friends

Publisher Review

"wonderfully bizarre" .... ..".as a twisty and fitfully funny episode of The Twilight Zone, it's a blast. A caustic, unexpected comic horror story in which the villain, as always, thinks he's the hero." - Kirkus Reviews "All My Colors is by turns a supernatural revenge fantasy, a black comedy, and a self-abnegating parody. It is hysterical, shocking, and propulsive--leave the lights on for its end." -Foreword Magazine

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