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& East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site.
Steven Hall
Steven Hall published his uber-modernist, self-conscious,
cinematically referential oeuvre about troubles with a conceptual shark - 'The Raw Shark Texts'
- to rave reviews in the national newspapers. It is now being turned into a film starring Tilda Swinton.
'The Raw Shark Texts'
Steven Hall’s “Raw Shark Texts” has been almost universally praised as an audaciously ambitious and successful debut novel incorporating references that range from Moby Dick, to Jaws, to The Matrix, to Memento.
It is such a powerfully complex psychological and philosophical novel that
to attempt to explain or to précis it becomes an act of hubris, however it is broadly-speaking about the disintegration
of the mind and the realisation that all that we regard as solid may indeed be ephemeral illusion, and all that we dismiss
as delusion may in fact have its place in the sub-text of reality. Its ultimate protagonists are the memes that colonise the
world and the conceptual shark that devours them – food and predator; poison and antidote.
The conceptual underpinning of the book is stunning
enough (as is the writing style which is both easy and exploratory), but the most impressive aspect of all is that set into
the core of this metaphysical wash surges a compelling adventure quest and a yearning physical story of love, loss and rediscovery.
In common with his Dr. Fidorous, Steven Hall knows precisely how to construct a craft of many layered planks of (il)logic
and adventure and, where they quiver as you cross them, be assured that is for your greater pleasure and discomfort. (TR)
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