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Michael Dhillon

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  • Michael Dhillon

  • 35 / Male
  • London and South East, UK
  • Last Login: 12/11/2009

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Interests

  • Music

    Soundtracks for writing: Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92 ∙ Black, Between Two Churches ∙ Colin Vearncombe, Abbey Road ∙ Depeche Mode, Violator ∙ Elbow, Cast of Thousands ∙ Future Sound of London, Dead Cities ∙ Gabriel Yared, Betty Blue ∙ Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene ∙ John Ellis, Wabi-Sabi 21c ∙ LFO, Frequencies ∙ Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis ∙ Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts ∙ Orbital, Insides ∙ Parliament, Maggot Brain ∙ Radiohead, Amnesiac ∙ Recoil, subHuman ∙ Stone Roses, Stone Roses ∙ Talk Talk, Laughing Stock ∙ Underworld, Second Toughest in the Infants ∙ Yann Tiersen, Amelie

  • Movies

    Adaptations: Arenas, Before Night Falls ∙ Buchan, The Thirty-nine Steps ∙ Burgess, A Clockwork Orange ∙ Conrad, Heart of Darkness ∙ Djian, Betty Blue ∙ Ellis, American Psycho ∙ Gifford, Wild at Heart ∙ Greene, The Third Man ∙ Irving, The Cider House Rules ∙ Kafka, The Trial ∙ Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ∙ King, The Green Mile ∙ Kosinski, Being There ∙ McCarthy, No Country for Old Men ∙ McEwan, Enduring Love ∙ Palahniuk, Fight Club ∙ Price, Clockers ∙ Satrapi, Persopolis ∙ Tolkein, Lord of the Rings ∙ Welsh, Trainspotting

  • Books

    Writers: Amis ∙ Arenas ∙ Atwood ∙ Baldwin ∙ Ballard ∙ Balzac ∙ Barnes ∙ Bataille ∙ Bellow ∙ Borges ∙ Borroughs ∙ Brautigan ∙ Burgess ∙ Calvino ∙ Camus ∙ Carver ∙ Cervantes ∙ Checkov ∙ Chesterton ∙ Coetzee ∙ Conrad ∙ Coupland ∙ Dickens ∙ Djian ∙ Dostoyevsky ∙ Eco ∙ Eggers ∙ Ellis ∙ Ellroy ∙ Eugenides ∙ Faulkner ∙ Fischer ∙ Fowles ∙ Garcia Marquez ∙ Garland ∙ Gifford ∙ Ginsberg ∙ Gogol ∙ Golding ∙ Gray ∙ Greene ∙ Grossman ∙ Hardy ∙ Heller ∙ Hemmingway ∙ Hesse ∙ Homer ∙ Homes ∙ Hugo ∙ Huxley ∙ Irving ∙ Ishiguro ∙ James ∙ Joyce ∙ Kafka ∙ Kelman ∙ Kerouac ∙ Kesey ∙ King ∙ Kundera ∙ Larkin ∙ Lee ∙ Lindsay ∙ McCarthy ∙ McCullers ∙ McEwan ∙ Mann ∙ Melville ∙ Mo ∙ Moravia ∙ Morrison ∙ Murakami ∙ Nabakov ∙ Nin ∙ Owens ∙ Palahniuk ∙ Poe ∙ Proust ∙ Rhinehart ∙ Rushdie ∙ Salinger ∙ Saramago ∙ Satre ∙ Selby Jr ∙ Self ∙ Steinbeck ∙ Stendhal ∙ Stoker ∙ Suskind ∙ Thompson ∙ Tolstoy ∙ Turgenev ∙ Twain ∙ Updike ∙ Vargas Llosa ∙ Vidal ∙ Wheatley ∙ White ∙ Wilson ∙ Winterson ∙ Yoshimoto ∙ Zola

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Blurbs

About me:

Michael Dhillon works by day and writes by night. His short stories have been published in the UK, North America and Australia. His first novel - The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke - was published in 2009 by YouWriteOn/Legend Press.


The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke
Michael Dhillon

YouWriteOn/Legend Press ∙ ISBN-13: 978-1849235105

In February 1916 a group of artists, poets and draft-dodgers convened in Zurich to open The Cabaret Voltaire nightclub and found Dada – a cultural movement that redefined the rules of art and life itself.

Almost a century later, Tristan Jarry – the world’s most famous artist – kidnaps Angelique Burr – the stepdaughter of the President of the United States of America.

Leaving a trail of chaos and carnage in his wake, Tristan reveals to Angelique the motive for her abduction: the resurrection of Dada, the emancipation of imagination, and art-inspired revolution.

What Tristan doesn’t reveal is the horrific truth of his endgame.

Buy now: Amazon (UK) ∙ The Book Depository (International free postage)

Reviews

"Quite, quite brilliant and utterly brutal." - Colin Vearncombe (Black)

"The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke paints a fictitious reality lived by thousands of artists, the romantic; drinking, whoring, seclusion and strife to change the world. Very real current issues are raised pertaining to the purpose and functionality of art and its omnipotence, the importance of artist popularity and misinterpretation, the brutality of sensationalism and the violence of revolution via extremes akin to that of Watchmen or V for Vendetta. Michael Dhillon's adventure excites and grips as it unfolds and tangles you in its complexity of issues, what should an artist be? what will someone do to be remembered? how complicated is morality?" - Tommy Eugene Higson (Cheap Magazine)

"The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke is a fascinating amalgam of artistic history, both real and imagined. It is a book that extols the value of art above all else while condemning (and violently attacking) the prevailing social order. Michael Dhillon has weaved a fantasy of profound, spellbinding proportions that resonates like little else written today. A fantastic debut from an undeniably talented author." - Matthew Revert, author of A Million Versions of Right


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