The raw shark texts
By: Steven Hall
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781841959115; 9781847670243; 9781841959023; 9781841959030
Subjects: Dissociative disorders; Fiction; Bereavement; Amnesia
Description: When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory. A letter from "The First Eric Sanderson" directs him to psychologist Dr. Randle, who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life -- specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier -- and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "species of purely conceptual fish" that "feeds on human memories and the intrinsic sense of self."