Exquisite Corpse

“A picaresque nightmare, a sinister shell game, an addled odyssey along the graying edges of the psyche—Exquisite Corpse is all of these things.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like 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 absurdist art, "Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying" (A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times)