Andrew Battershill

Literary crime novel populated by French Surrealist authors of the twenties; characters include imagined versions of André Breton, Georges Bataille, Antonin Artaud, Guillaume Apollinaire (changed to be an old woman), Robert Desnos, Louis Aragon (changed to be a young woman with cool hair), Jacques Prevert and Michel Simon.Pillow is a twist on the anti-hero that looms so large in the cultural imagination right now (Tao Lin's novels, HBO series including Breaking Bad and The Knick). In fact,...