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The Raw Shark Texts.(Critical essay)(Brief article)

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Eric Sanderson wakes up amnesiac, without an identity, but gradually discovers that he is the second iteration of another Sanderson, the First, who clues in his successor through a series of artfully organized letters composed before his death. The Second Sanderson soon learns the bizarre truth: a "conceptual" shark--depicted graphically in the book as a fish-shaped bundle of text--devoured the First by feeding on ...

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