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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 bothEric Sandersons forever.
An astounding and daring book by debut novelist Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts confronts readers with a fascinating puzzle aswell as an intensely absorbing story.
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Razor sharp, it pulls you in from the first page. Eric Sanderson has lost his identity, and his journey to get it back will blow your mind. -- Geoffrey B. Jennings
Steven Hall has delivered a trippy story, a meditation on love and loss (the kind of soul-crushing, impossible loss that makes one believe in conceptual fish), a thriller that will haunt you. Pass it on to a friend. Commence debate. -- Mickey Rapkin
Not since Fight Club have I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel. . . . The Raw Shark Texts pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air." -- Brad Thomas Parsons
Reading The Raw Shark Texts reminded me of the experience I had first reading Infinite Jest and House of Leaves--Here is a white-hot new talent who has created a different kind of landscape for words--a place where words can actually save you--and the deeper you read, the better it gets. His book is a high-concept myth told with popular conventions, and it will no doubt inspire a cult following. -- Jamie Kornegay
Try saying The Raw Shark Texts ten times, as fast as you can... I couldn't either. But after reading Steven Hall's remarkable new novel I'm confident The Raw Shark Texts will be on everyone's lips when it debuts this spring. When a novel this inventive, this literary, is combined with a narrative that is this taut and this riveting, the only thing for a bookseller to do is learn how to repeat the title over and over again without screwing it up, because I'm confident all of us will be recommending it endlessly to anyone who'll listen. -- Mitchell Kaplan
"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. . . . Riveting . . . A narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"Exhilarating." -"Entertainment Weekly"
"Rousingly inventive." -"The Washington Post"
"Unforgettable fiction." -"Playboy"
"A thriller that will haunt you." -"GQ"
"Sharp and clear...writing on the edge of the form." -"Los Angeles Times"
"Exhilarating." -"Entertainment Weekly"
"Rousingly inventive." -"The Washington Post"
"Unforgettable fiction." -"Playboy"
"A thriller that will haunt you." -"GQ"
"Sharp and clear...writing on the edge of the form." -"Los Angeles Times"
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Steven Hall has delivered a trippy story, a meditation on love and loss (the kind of soul-crushing, impossible loss that makes one believe in conceptual fish), a thriller that will haunt you. Pass it on to a friend. Commence debate. -- Mickey Rapkin
Not since Fight Club have I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel. . . . The Raw Shark Texts pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air." -- Brad Thomas Parsons
Reading The Raw Shark Texts reminded me of the experience I had first reading Infinite Jest and House of Leaves--Here is a white-hot new talent who has created a different kind of landscape for words--a place where words can actually save you--and the deeper you read, the better it gets. His book is a high-concept myth told with popular conventions, and it will no doubt inspire a cult following. -- Jamie Kornegay
Try saying The Raw Shark Texts ten times, as fast as you can... I couldn't either. But after reading Steven Hall's remarkable new novel I'm confident The Raw Shark Texts will be on everyone's lips when it debuts this spring. When a novel this inventive, this literary, is combined with a narrative that is this taut and this riveting, the only thing for a bookseller to do is learn how to repeat the title over and over again without screwing it up, because I'm confident all of us will be recommending it endlessly to anyone who'll listen. -- Mitchell Kaplan
"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. . . . Riveting . . . A narrative feat of hallucinatory imagination." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"Exhilarating." -"Entertainment Weekly"
"Rousingly inventive." -"The Washington Post"
"Unforgettable fiction." -"Playboy"
"A thriller that will haunt you." -"GQ"
"Sharp and clear...writing on the edge of the form." -"Los Angeles Times"
"Exhilarating." -"Entertainment Weekly"
"Rousingly inventive." -"The Washington Post"
"Unforgettable fiction." -"Playboy"
"A thriller that will haunt you." -"GQ"
"Sharp and clear...writing on the edge of the form." -"Los Angeles Times"
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Steven Hall is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which he received a Writer's Guild nomination. His 2007 debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an international bestseller and has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Maxwell's Demon is his highly-anticipated second novel.
@stevenha11 - steven-hall.org
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0002006979
- ISBN 13 9780002006972
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