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ÆgyptSeries
series5 books1987
completed
Fantasy and literary & general, reflective in tone, about books and reading and identity, set in contemporary and north america.
“Does the world have a secret history, encoded in myth and legend, reflected in the very windings of our brains?”
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The Land of LaughsNovel
Jonathan Carrollstandalone novel1980
Eerie in tone, set in small town.
“WorldCat: Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner.”
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The Falling WomanNovel
Pat Murphystandalone novel1986
About madness and grief and loss.
PiranesiNovel
Susanna Clarkestandalone novel2020
About amnesia and loneliness, set in otherworld.
“A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”
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The Tragedy of ArthurNovel
Arthur Phillipsstandalone novel2011
Historical fiction, about family secrets, set in our world.
Life of PiNovel
Yann Martelstandalone novel2001
About survival, set in at sea and south asia.
“After a shipwreck, he survives 227 days while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, raising questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told.”
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