In the solitude of his room, Alan Bland confronts the shattering loss of his enigmatic best friend, known only as X. Armed with a typewriter and a heart on tenterhooks, Alan embarks on a marathonian six-day, six-night challenge, pouring out a torrent of memories to unravel the man who was both his confidant and rival.

X, a figure cloaked in unsettling secrecy, formed one pinnacle of a tangled love triangle with Alan and the elusive Amara, a woman whose allure proved both magnetic and devastating. As Alan recounts their fraught romance, he lays bare the wounds of Amara’s choice.

As the hours blur and exhaustion takes hold, Alan’s prose frays, veering into fevered, semi-conscious revelations. Exhausted and close to death, after hitting the wall, he makes a supreme effort at the climax of his tale to finally reveal the startling truth about X.

For readers of Andrew Komarnyckyj’s sharp wit and literary finesse, as seen in his novel Ezra Slef, Marathon d’Écriture delivers a darkly romantic and intellectually provocative tale, laced with mordant humour and profound insight, a journey that will resonate with all those who have ever wrestled with the ghosts of love, secrecy, memory and death.

Andrew Komarnyckyj is the author of several novels including:

• Ezra Slef
• The Revenge of Joe Wild
• Gonzobelly
• Blacktelligence rules

Andrew has been shortlisted once and long-listed twice for the Yeovil Literary Prize. He has been invited at the Open Books Literary festival in Vilnius.

Andrew Komarnyckyj is known for his postmodernism writing and for his unlikeable characters who, in spite of their antisocial qualities, engage the sympathy of the reader. Humour is a key ingredient of his work.

Although best known for Literary Fiction, he also writes Psychological Thrillers and Horrors. sometime his work defies classification and the only genre to which it truly belongs is Komarnyckyj.