The Raw Shark Texts

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 clearwriting 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 clearwriting 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" R> "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"