Cameo

<p><b>'The greatest present you could gift this Christmas is preordering Rob Doyle's slutty third novel <i>Cameo</i> . . . A true thrill ride through heaven and hell' <i>GQ<br><br></i></b><b>'Like Swift before him, Rob Doyle is a social satirist of the highest order . . . <i>Cameo</i> is provocative, transgressive, grimly hilarious, and it surely can't be long until he spawns his own adjective. 'Doylean'? Don't rule it out' BENJAMIN MYERS<br></b><b><br>'Curious, compassionate, filthy, iconoclastic . . . <i>Cameo </i>is mindbending fun and Rob Doyle yet again underlines his legend' LISA McINERNEY<br><br>The new novel from Irish Book Award-shortlisted author Rob Doyle: a daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality</b><br><br><i>Cameo</i> is the life story of invented Irish novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success with a prolific series of autofictional novels.<br><br>What begins as a playful satire on literary ambition and the chaos of our times expands into a dazzling, polyphonic odyssey that challenges the border between fiction and reality.<br><br>As the Ren Duka novels race outwards in widening circles of influence, we encounter Dina Tatangelo, cult novelist of the New York underworld; a Japanese manga artist whose work eerily affects his family life; a grizzled Dublin taxi driver who just might ferry his passengers between worlds; a film-star facing public disgrace; and Rob Doyle, an author enduring a psychic and ontological crisis.<br><i><br>Cameo</i> is at once a metaphysical architecture of the imagination, a human comedy full of unruly passions, and a self-portrait across multiple dimensions.<br><br><b>'Where I come from, when something is called mad it's often a good thing. Rob Doyle's new novel is very mad' RODDY DOYLE<br><br>'A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' <i>SPECTATOR</i></b></p>