We Live Here Now

DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .

When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.

Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.

Author: C. D. Rose
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
ISBN13: 9781685892012
ISBN10: 1685892019
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | Dark Humor
- Fiction | Absurdist
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author
C. D. Rose is the author of four previous books, including The Blind Accordionist and Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea. His short stories have appeared in Gorse, 3AM, The Quietus, and Best British Short Stories. He currently lives in the north of England.