Frederick Roden

Playing a Part

Fiction

“Playing a Part is a masterwork of literary fiction. This surrealist novel unravels the ‘mystery’ in religion and that endemic to writing. Poli grips and sustains wit in the best postmodern tradition. The book always and never takes itself too seriously. This first novel, which could only have been written by a poet who glimpses the infinite and dwells in possibility, reads like the love-child of Sayers and Sebald. Eminently readable and highly recommended.”