Cameo

'A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' Spectator

Cameo is the life story of invented Irish novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success with a prolific series of autofictional novels.

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.

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.

Cameo is at once a metaphysical architecture of the imagination, a human comedy full of unruly passions, and a self-portrait across multiple dimensions.

Rob Doyle is the author of four internationally acclaimed books: Autobibliography, Threshold, This is the Ritual, and Here Are the Young Men which was adapted as a film starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Dean-Charles Chapman, and was named as one of Hot Press magazine's '20 Greatest Irish Novels 1916-2016'. Doyle's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Observer, TLS, Dublin Review, and many other publications, and his work has been translated into several languages. He is the editor of an anthology published by Dalkey Archive Press, The Other Irish Tradition, and the book In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep.

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