Exquisite Corpse: A Novel

This "off-beat, brisk and darkly comic" historical novel about an artist's romantic obsession with his muse is "consistently clever and inventive."(The New York Times)

Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of surrealism, it concerns Casper, a mediocre surr...