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CRITIQUE:

An Idea for a Book Review (That Just Came Out of Nowhere)
[Apologies to David Quantick]

This novel is so well woven together, its themes and narrative so neatly combined, that it is difficult to find a part that doesn't contain a necessary revelation or a major plot twist.

"All My Colors" is a tour de force. But it's more than that. Tours de force come and go. This book is special. Find it. Buy it. Read it.

First editions of this book are going to be valuable.

"All My Colors" is the book of the year, if not the decade. It combines a modern attitude to life and society with an almost arch 1950s feel, almost as if David Quantick's novel has been transported from an earlier time, with a frank contemporary take on the war between men and women running through it like a seam of antiquated yet still valuable ore.

Move over, Saul Bellow, and let David Quantick (1) take over.


The Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

FOOTNOTES:

(1) I recall David Quantick as a music journalist who wrote for in the early 1980's. He often wrote about one of my favourite bands, the Jesus and Mary Chain. This novel is named after a song by another one of my favourite bands, Echo & the Bunnymen, whom I was lucky to see live twice in the early 80's.


SOUNDTRACK:
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[Dedicated to Echo & The Bunnymen’s drummer, Peter de Freitas]

Echo & the Bunnymen - "All My Colours"



Echo & the Bunnymen - "All My Colours" [Live on Dutch TV, 1981]



Echo & The Bunnymen - "All My Colours (Turn to Cloud)" [Peel Session 1980]



The Jesus And Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"



The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey" (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers) [Live at Glastonbury, 2022]



David Quantick's Soundtrack on Spotify



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