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The raw shark texts
Title:
The raw shark texts
ISBN:
9781841959115
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, c2007.
Physical Description:
428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Narrator Eric Sanderson suffers from what his psychiatrist, Dr. Randle, calls "psychotropic fugue, " a recurring amnesia. The only clues he has to the catastrophe that triggered his psychosis are those provided by Dr. Randle and through letters and packages sent to him by "the First Eric Sanderson." According to the psychiatrist, Eric has tried to come to terms with his past and his identity on previous occasions, only to revert to the state that he's in when the novel begins, reborn from unconsciousness. She warns him not to pay any heed to the First Eric Sanderson: This is where madness lies. Yet the First Eric Sanderson warns him not to trust Dr. Randle, who may be putting her professional interests in his unusual case ahead of his best interests. At the crux of Eric's crisis is a trip he took with his girlfriend Clio to the Greek islands, where she seems to have suffered a fatal scuba-diving accident.
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