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Just when you thought it was safe… Eric Sanderson comes to with no memory of who or where he is. Things start falling into place when he begins to receive mail from “the First Eric Sanderson”, but Steven Hall’s extraordinary debut soon goes well beyond familiar amnesia narratives, positing the existence of conceptual fish that lurk in the currents and tides generated by social and intellectual interaction. One of these monsters, a whopping great shark known as a Ludovician, did for the First Eric Sanderson and is now stalking the second. Although Hall is occasionally too eager to acknowledge his influences – Murakami, Auster, Memento, The Matrix, Fight Club, Jaws - and his idea of cute-couple dialogue is borderline nauseating, his extraordinarily fecund imagination and sure-footed plotting make this a dizzyingly exciting novel. Its conceptual audaciousness is very nearly ridiculous, but enables instead a thought-provoking meditation on the power of ideas and the mysteries of identity, all threaded through a white-knuckle shark hunt. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, out now published by Canongate.
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