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“All My Colors” is the first book by David Quantick that I have read, I can assure you that it will not be the last.
In television, Quantick has writing credits for shows like “Veep,” “The Thick of It,” and “On the Hour.” But if I were also to mention shows like “Jam” and its radio predecessor, “Blue Jam,” you will get an idea of the kind of territory in which “All My Colors” sits.
The book revolves around Todd Milstead, a boorish thug of a man who fancies himself a writer. His delusion is held back by one simple reality: he really cannot write. But he can quote, and he can lecture which, for the time being, will have to be enough.
That is until a book spews about of him, the next Great American Novel, “All My Colors.”
Quantick skilfully steeps the novel in a foreboding sense of doom from the beginning, as Milstead slowly sinks into the filthy mire of gothic horror. The language is exact, and the pace is exhilarating, leaving a book that breathlessly swirls around and captivates the reader. I am not usually a swift devourer of books, unlike Tim, Quantick’s fictional bookshop owner, but this was a tome that I could not put down. When it was over, I had to sit, breath, and regain my troubled equilibrium.
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