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A Man Lies Dreaming - Lavie Tidhar
A Man Lies Dreaming
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781612195049 (1612195040)
ASIN: 1612195040
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Ceridwen
Ceridwen rated it
0.0 The Past Is Twisted into Pulp in A Man Lies Dreaming
Man, this book is bananas: a noir set in a fascist England in 1939, with an unexpected historical figure as the gumshoe. It's bizarre to have something so high concept be so pulpy and brutal. Certainly fucks up one's notions of the role of alternate history, boy howdy. Full review at B&N Sci-Fi.
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite rated it
4.0 A Man Lies Dreaming, by Lavie Tidhar
Perhaps it’s fitting that I read Hannah Tennant-Moore’ essay in The Paris Review about the merits of reading literature that disgusts and repulses us. Her words helped me through Lavie Tidhar’s disturbing work, A Man Lies Dreaming. The other thing that helped me through the scenes of, for lack of a ...
Sister Mary Murderous
Sister Mary Murderous rated it
4.5 Pulp fiction revenge fantasy against Hitler. Seriously.
How in the world can I describe this book? It's definitely the most unusual story I've read in a long time. It jumps back and forth between the dream of a man, Shomer, who is an inmate at Auschwitz, and a pulp fiction story about an alternate history in which Germany falls to the Communists rather...
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