Random House N.Y.

Random House N.Y.

English

"This master of immersion journalism . . . turns his attention to fiction with this novel about a young man who makes a living writing suicide notes. Yes please." --National Post“Lean and mean and with a surprising amount of heart. Make no mistake, Ghosted is for real.” — Ray Robertson, author of David “Ghosted is not for the faint of heart—in places it’s an unflinching exploration of depravity. But it is, above all, an often funny, always optimistic parable of victory over demons of despair, the ghosts of our failed selves.” — Linden MacIntyre, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of The Bishop’s Man “Bukowski craggy and Hornby sweet, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Ghosted is a smart book about smart guys who can’t stop from acting dumb. The real pleasure, though, is in the lines: funny sad, funny strange, and funny zing! A hell of a first novel.”— Andrew Pyper, author of The Killing Circle “A harrowing and spellbinding tour through the world of addiction that combines elements of Infinite Jest with Silence of the Lambs.” — Don Gillmor, author of Kanata“The unique voice heard throughout Ghosted is so heartbreakingly authentic. . . . A terrifying but moving and life-affirming paean to love, friendship, devotion, determination and all those other characteristics that make human beings such wonderfully fascinating creatures in real life and in richly imagined novels like Ghosted.”— Ottawa Citizen “A savage, heartfelt, exhilarating first novel . . . Ghosted is, in a nutshell, a book about a guy who becomes a ghostwriter of suicide notes. What makes this high-concept premise work is the book’s a) heart, and b) voice. Which may, in the final analysis, be one and the same thing.” — TOROmagazine.com “Absolutely exhilarating. . . . Bishop-Stall is a major talent. . . . Bishop-Stall has an unarguably unique voice, urgent and impossible to ignore.” — NOW (Toronto) “Inventive first novel. . . . Ghosted crackles. . . . Impressive, ambitious and exhausting, Ghosted is a novel for those who don’t scare easily.” — Kevin Chong, The Globe and Mail