Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everthing from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construnction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, SPIDER is a tale...
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Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everthing from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construnction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, SPIDER is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.[Taken from the back cover]
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