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Cameo: The masterful hilarious genuinely scintillating 2026 One to Watch
Rob Doyle
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'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.
Read MorePraise for Cameo: The masterful hilarious genuinely scintillating 2026 One to Watch
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Doyle plumbs the bleaker aspects of literary life with startling precision and candor - New York Times (on This is the Ritual)I was buzzing after reading Threshold: it's the kind of work you have to come down from - playful, potent, lurid, moving and fearless - Lisa McInerney (on Threshold)Doyle's fiction deals with life's major themes: sex, death, guilt, shame, the meaning of existence . . . Doyle's storytelling is compelling and engaging, suffused with wit, honesty and emotional intelligence - Irish Times (on This is the Ritual)Extraordinary, quite unlike anything I've read before. It's fearless and challenging, inventive and compulsive, unique and utterly heartfelt. Masterful - John Boyne (on Threshold)
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