Hall, Steven
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Gedanken Haie (The Raw Shark Texts) / Hall, Steven ; Marcus Ingendaay, translator ; Susanne Hornfeck, translator ; Sonja Hauser, translator., 2007
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Identifier: CC-52244-73366
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This is the first German edition of this book.Audrey Niffenegger Amazon.com writes: "Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time. Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his...
Dates:
2007