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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> You may just possibly be wondering what kind of bo this is. Well it may I suppose be most simply describe as a kind of novel in that it has a narrative of sor and much of the action is fictional. To be more precis though it is a documentary novel in that time and again the narrative is being generated or informed by scraps actual history-mostly newspaper clippings and persona testimonies. As you will see these documentary fragment appear primarily as inserts within the narrative. So a documentary or ‘found’ novel you might say but I think it is still more a readerly novel in that the action is drivs not only by all these documentary texts but also by a central character who whenever he speaks only ever uses words gleaned verbatim from the voluminous writings of the German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). In this sense my novel is one long act of reading – in particular of reading or re- reading the work and the life of Benjamin. The result I hope is that we see Benjamin not only askew but also afresh and in a manner that takes us a little closer to what his life and work might have meant or might yet come to mean. (LL)