Nicholas Royle, Quilt

Nicholas Royle's (literary critic, theorist and now novelist) debut novella Quilt (2010, Myriad Editions) is a disorienting journey into an unnamed man's pathological experience of mourning after the death of his father. At work in the piece is a subtle and emotive handling of memory, a disruption of linear time, along with much more in the novella's fashioning, most notably the excessive coining of portmanteaus, that sets in motion a conscious interrogation of ...