Saturday, January 06, 2007

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Eric Sanderson...lost his girlfriend in an accident whilst on holiday – and, thanks to a recurring disassociative disorder (according to his psychiatrist, Dr Randle), he keeps losing all memory of his self. When we join Eric, his disorder has recurred for the eleventh time; and, as he tries to make sense of life again, he receives a series of letters signed ‘the First Eric Sanderson’ giving a rather different explanation for his amnesia: that Eric is being hunted by a Ludovician, a ‘conceptual shark’ that feeds on human memories...


Continue reading at Laura Hird's New Review.

Further links:
Steven Hall
Novel website
Canongate

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