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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
It sounds awesome! I just "Told the Publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle!"
From Publishers Weekly:
.....In this unsettling, shimmering novel, the reader is immediately drawn into the world of a woman who has gone mad because she is the last surviving creature on earth. Sitting at a typewriter in a beach house day after uncharted day she keeps no calendar or clocks she pours out her thoughts on music, art and ancient Greek legends, and remembrances of her travels across the globe in abandoned cars, looking for other living beings. But after a while, some discrepancies creep into her rambling, compelling monologue: an accident that she first says took place in New York now occurs in Leningrad; memories become distorted by imaginings. Were they ever really memories in the first place? By the end of this seamless stream of consciousness, there is no distinction between fantasy and reality, past and present. Markson (The Ballad of Dingus Magee) keeps the reader off balance and finally unsure of even the foundation of his character's madness perhaps she is alone only because she believes she is.
.....Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
I don't read much fiction, but if this ever become available as an ebook, I hope someone will let me know. It sounds fascinating as all get-out!
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Yes, it does sound interesting, but apparently none of this author's books are available in e-form, except one, only in the Sony store, according to addall.
The reviews at Librarything are interesting, hard to say whether I would like his works or not, but I will look out for an opportunity to sample them.