The Raw Shark Texts
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$24.99
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On Sale:
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07/04/2008
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First things first, stay calm.
If you are reading this, I'm not around anymore. Take the phone and speed dial 1. Tell the woman who answers that you are Eric Sanderson. The woman is Dr. Randle. She'll understand what has happened.
With regret, and also hope, The First Eric Sanderson.
When Eric Sanderson wakes to amnesia and a haunting note from himself, he discovers an eerie world of thought and concept, a world in which ideas have a life of their own. Attacked by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore—including those of a perfect love now lost—Eric discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind but which stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction. Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy both Eric Sandersons forever.
An astounding and daring book by debut novelist Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts confronts readers with a fascinating puzzle as well as an intensely absorbing story.
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Critical Praise for
The Raw Shark Texts
"Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent--The Raw Shark Texts--is all these and more: a cult classic waiting to happen, a blockbuster begging to be made. Steven Hall is a truly fantastic storyteller. Investigate, now!"
— Toby Litt, author of Ghost Story
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"A remarkable book. I felt that I was in such good hands--not safe exactly, but assured. I loved the humanity of the characters. It is a very original and compelling world."
Louise Welsh, author of The Bullet Trick
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"Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Textsis a psychological thriller with shades of Memento and The Matrix and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns, it explores the construction of identity through the adventures of an amnesiac who is guided by letters from his former self and menaced by a conceptual shark."
— The Guardian on novels to watch for in 2007
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"Hall's debut, the darling of last year's London Book Fair, is a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence, not flesh and blood…a fast-moving, cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen."
— Publishers Weekly
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"If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall's deliriously ambitious debut. A narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination."
— Kirkus (starred review)
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"If you long for something new and fresh, then British writer Steven Hall's first novel might be the literary antidote... The story is strong, the underpinnings are original and meticulous, the characters are engaging, every page exudes sheer unabashed joy in the written word."
— The Globe and Mail
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"Heartfelt, lyrical . . . Rendered with the precise attentiveness to psychological states of mind worthy of a hyperventilating James Joyce."
— Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
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The Raw Shark Texts
Eric Sanderson is jolted awake one morning to discover that he does not know who he is or where he is. All that he has to cling to is a series of letters and packages—which he is warned not to open—signed “with regret and hope” from the First Eric Sanderson. Attacked in his own...
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The Raw Shark Texts
First things first, stay calm. If you are reading this, I'm not around anymore. Take the phone and speed dial 1. Tell the woman who answers that you are Eric Sanderson. The woman is Dr. Randle. She'll understand what has happened. With regret, and also hope, The First Eric Sanderson. When Eric...
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