Welcome to Litsy!

This fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends is �a delightful literary novel�extraordinarily imaginative� (Psychology Today) from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz�for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace. Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and muse, is a haplessly criminal entrepreneur with an uncanny knack for disaster. As Aldo�s luck worsens, Liam is inspired to base his next book on his best friend�s exponential misfortunes and hopeless quest to win back his one great love: his ex-wife, Stella. What begins as an attempt to make sense of Aldo�s mishaps spirals into a profound story of faith and friendship. �Steve Toltz channels a poet�s delight in crafting the perfect phrase on every highly quotable page� (Publishers Weekly). With the same originality, brilliance, and buoyancy that catapulted his first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, onto prize lists around the world, Toltz has created a rousing, hysterically funny but unapologetically dark satire about love, faith, friendship, and the artist�s obligation to his muse. Quicksand is a subversive portrait of twenty-first-century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity that �confounds and astonishes in equal measure, often on the same page�A tour de force� (Australian Book Review).