The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas

[Darryl]

When I came across this group, it seemed the perfect place to recommend the best book I've read in 2019 - a novel that reads like a love letter to postmodernism and that is definitely one of the strangest and most unusual reading experiences I've ever had. It's more than a book, it's a work of art, it's a challenging, monumental, unsettling, thrilling and highly immersive experience.

This is The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James.

This is the blurb...

Ezra Maas is dead. The famously reclusive artist vanished without a trace seven years ago whilst working on his final masterpiece, but his body was never found. While the Maas foundation prepares to announce his death, journalist Daniel James finds himself hired to write the untold story of the artist's life - But this is no ordinary book. The deeper James delves into the myth of Ezra Maas, the more he is drawn into a nightmarish world of fractured identities and sinister doubles.

A chilling literary labyrinth, The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas deftly blends postmodern noir with pseudo-biography, letters, phone transcripts, documents, emails and newspaper clippings to create a story like no other before it.

[Darryl]

The opening line of the book reads...

"This book is dangerous."

And it really is.

Strange things happen when you read this book.

Try tweeting that you're reading it using the hashtag EzraMaas or MaasLives and see what happens next...