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Lädt ... Shark (2014)von Will Self
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  SpikeSix | Jan 21, 2016 |   Shark: A Novel by Will Self (Grove Press, $26). British novelist Will Self offers as much promise for the post-modern novel as we can hope for: That it will somehow transcend self-indulgence. In his latest, Shark: A Novel, which comes just months after Self declared the novel dead in an essay, he returns to the odd psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Zack Busner, familiar from his last novel, Umbrella. In this novel, we’ve got a 1970 acid trip, taken on the same day as the massacre at Kent State, which leads us to the psychological struggles of a survivor of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (familiar to fans of Jaws as the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, then sank in shark-infested waters, leaving Quint and his comrades to blood, terror and death) and a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. Self isn’t the first to suggest that everything since World War II was an LSD-fueled hallucination (you can make the case that Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow did that), but this novel makes a better case for it than most. Reviewed on Lit/Rant: www.litrant.tumblr.com (  ) KelMunger | Jan 26, 2015 | Zeige 2 von 2
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In 1975, five years after being tricked into going on an ill-advised LSD trip, maverick psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Only two reviews here and I think one is by his mum. (