Steve Toltz Boeken

Moet Jasper Dean zijn paranoïde vader Martin haten of houdt hij eigenlijk zielsveel van hem? Moet hij medelijden met hem hebben of hem vermoorden? Zijn vader, een maniakale, onaangepaste filosoof die altijd krampachtig probeert het leven te analyseren, maakt zijn zoon tot onwillig klankbord voor al zijn bevindingen. Martin Dean probeert zijn leven lang uit de schaduw van zijn broer te stappen: de succesvolle, populaire sportheld annex topcrimineel Terry Dean. Na zijn vaders dood blikt Jasper terug op het excentrieke leven van zijn vader, een man die iets groots en meeslepends wilde nalaten aan een wereld die hij tot in het diepst van zijn ziel verachtte.

Angus Mooney is not happy - he's been murdered, cut off in the prime of his life. He feels humiliated - he's never even believed in an afterlife. (How wrong he'd been). He's confused - death has provided more questions than answers. And he desperately misses his audacious and fiery wife, Gracie, who's expecting their first child. The only upside is that Angus has found a way to see what his murderer is up to, and how Gracie is faring. The downside: Gracie and his murderer are getting uncomfortably close, and a worldwide pandemic means the afterlife is about to get very crowded.

'A tour de force of sustained brilliance' Mail on Sunday Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship. Aldo Benjamin may be the unluckiest soul in human history, but that isn't going to stop his friend Liam writing about him. For what more could an aspiring novelist want from his muse than a thousand get-rich-quick schemes, a life-long love affair, an eloquently named brothel, the most sexually confusing evening imaginable and a brief conversation with God? 'What a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent.' Peter Carey 'Tremendous' Sunday Times